Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under her frozen smile. Among the French aristocracy just before the Revolution, she is the stage manager of affections and deceptions, he the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them to peek through keyholes, swipe bedroom keys, purloin letters, ruin lives. And write with feathers...
George Bush is hardly known for his rhetorical gifts. But his speech at last summer's Republican Convention has already left its mark on the American language -- at least the kind pundits write and speak. Ever since Bush invited the Congress to "read my lips," invoked a "thousand points of light" and promised a "kinder and gentler nation," journalists have become obsessed with the phrases...
...general consensus that use of chemical weapons is wrong," says William Burns, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "I think we want to re-establish that." The U.S. hopes that the Paris meeting will pump momentum into the Conference on Disarmament, a 40-nation effort to write a treaty that would ban the gases outright. As an interim step, several participants want to strengthen the U.N. Secretary-General's authority to investigate charges of chemical-weapons...
...Harvard Real Estate's hotel plans are painfully foolish. At a time when the Harvard-Radcliffe population desperately needs space and security, HRE is turning University land over to transient strangers. Everyone knows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not have enough space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have less than ideal work environments at home...
...most unusual proposal to date comes from a Peruvian economist, who has suggested swapping debt for the creation of an antidrug fund. Under the scheme, debts held by overseas commercial banks would be handed over to the central bank of the debtor. The commercial banks would be able to write off the debt as a loss and donation for tax purposes, while the debtor country would put a percentage of the debt into a local currency deposit. The interest would be directed into an antidrug fund for financing crop substitution and other development projects in areas where cocaine is produced...