Word: woos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them fast -- like this," he said, phoning his fish wholesaler of 25 years to complain about a batch of less than fresh scallops. Soltner is a demanding chef, but he takes good care of his employees, paying top wages and taking an interest in them. Though competitors try to woo them away, Lutece has practically no turnover. Still there are intermittent problems and complaints from both customers and critics. "Critics aren't always wrong," Soltner says, adding quickly, "but they aren't always right either. The staff feels pressure from our reputation, with some customers coming to prove...
...petition calling for constitutional reforms that was being circulated by the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest opposition group. The government's position: no discussion of the subject until after the 1988 Seoul Olympics and presidential elections. Last week, however, Chun changed his mind. At lunch with Lee Min Woo, leader of the N.K.D.P., and other politicians, he offered to consider writing a new constitution, though on his own terms...
...found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism is all Wonder bread and moving-eye portraits of Jesus. The prospect of reincarnation is just...
Despite its remarkable progress, however, Argentina is far from cured. Economic experts agree that permanent recovery is dependent on the government's ability to lift wage and price controls without reviving inflation. Alfonsin must also induce more private investment and woo back the approximately $25 billion in capital that fled the country during inflationary times. Finally, the government will have to return to private hands some of the 300 or so state-owned enterprises, which lost a total of $2 billion last year. All of this will require public confidence that inflation has truly been conquered...
...become such a happening in America that they are trendy grist for late-night comedy--never mind that a lot of folks do not find them very funny. But the public has every reason to wonder just what is going on, as dozens of the country's biggest businesses woo, wrangle and battle for one another in the strongest outbreak of the urge to merge in U.S. history. Is the current rash of mergers good for American business? For stockholders? For the country? And just how far can it go before it goes...