Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House was also miffed by word that Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, the Judiciary Committee chairman and Democratic presidential hopeful, intends to lead the fight against the conservative Bork -- exploiting a chance to win favor among liberal groups in a well-publicized setting. Biden, grumbled Fitzwater, has chosen to "politicize the hearings." Shocking...
Like commercial creditors, the Paris Club governments insist that creditors who plead for rescheduling should receive at least a word of approval and an interim loan from the International Monetary Fund in Washington, an organization to which club members also belong. Then, to convince the club that they are truly unable to pay back outstanding loans, petitioners must do a virtual striptease, disclosing their most sensitive financial data. "One of the unwritten rules is that the confidentiality of a debtor country's economic and financial statistics is sacrosanct," Trichet explains...
Apostrophes (the name comes from both the punctuation mark and the word for a rhetorical statement) is so successful at boosting book sales in France that Pivot reigns as the most influential literary figure in the country. "Ask a publisher or bookstore owner what it would be like without Pivot," declared the French newsmagazine Le Point, "and then look at the expression on his face. It's one of a lone sailor at sea who's just lost the mast of his ship...
Elegance is usually an imposition, a set of mannerisms employed by the swells to cover their emptiness and maintain their distance from us plebeians. Fred Astaire's achievement -- no, his glory -- was that he made elegance infectious. He democratized and Americanized the word most overused to describe himself...
...media have won most major cases that went through the full appellate process. Moreover, while juries have rendered more than 30 verdicts in excess of $1 million since 1980, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, not one judgment has topped even half that sum after appeals. The word seems to be getting through to potential plaintiffs. Says veteran First Amendment Attorney James Goodale: "Libel litigation is at the lowest level that I have seen it since the period that followed the Sullivan case in the 1960s...