Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Require the appointed people to follow-up on every action the council requests. Too often good ideas approved by the council die because the chair "forgets" to write a letter. There should be a list of requests, which is constantly updated as each is taken care of or as new requests are added. At the beginning of each meeting, ask the responsible officers what they did for the council over the past week. If they did nothing, embarass them publicly...
...never forget the letter I received from the oldest living American to have played for a World Cup team. He was in his late 80s. All he wanted was someone to do a story on the history of the United States in the World...
...Wednesday, an ominous sound razzed the terminal while I was typing a letter. And then a bomb appeared with a message, saying simply, "Sorry, a system error occured...
...panicked at what the Soviets may say yes to." That comment from Jack Mendelsohn, deputy director of the Arms Control Association, may sound a bit exaggerated. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze brought a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Washington last week, it had U.S. officials worried. What if it contained some bold proposals? That might force a curiously hesitant Administration to decide how far and how fast it wants to go toward nuclear-weapons agreements -- or even to make up its mind on what, if anything, it should do to help Gorbachev survive...
...happened, Gorbachev proposed nothing startling but plenty to intrigue negotiators. His letter was a grab bag of proposals covering the whole gamut of arms control. All told, they suggested not just Soviet cooperation but an extraordinary readiness to compromise to give stalled arms negotiations fresh momentum. Standout example: Moscow withdrew its insistence that curbs on space weapons must be linked to slashes in the number of long-range nuclear missiles...