Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected less from Waldheim's trip than the Secretary-General himself. "I don't have any illusions that I will come back with the hostages," he was reported to have told his aides, "but I hope to start a successful turn, get going in another direction, so that the U.S. and Iran will start negotiating." The 61-year-old diplomat, who once described his office as a mailbox for messages from antagonistic governments, was reluctant to go to Tehran in the first place. "How will the Iranians react?" he asked. "My going there depends on their attitude...
...often done successfully, to other people's self-interests. At any rate it must put together a tight, coherent and absolutely consistent body of principles that it rep resents and is willing to act upon. It may be that only by accepting their unpopularity will Americans have some hope of regaining the world's good opinion and respect...
...failure of these Communist mayors to live up to the voters' expectations could well cost the party Naples, Rome and Turin in next year's local elections, although Novelli has perhaps a slightly better hope of remaining in office. Whatever the outcome, says University of Rome Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, an independent leftist, "the myth of the Communists' administrative efficiency has been exposed. The Christian Democrats may be corrupt, but they have the experience of government. The Communists are simply not yet equipped to govern...
...powers for its discovery; pheromones seem to have less effect on humans than on lower animals, and one scientist notes, "What it creates between people, even strangers, is more in the nature of an immediate empathy." Still, rumor has it that perfume manufacturers are converging on Warwick in the hope of bottling the precious essence as aftershave lotion that women cannot resist...
...others?can only be enriched by seeing how their more traditional contemporaries dealt with the same subjects of Breton life. Brittany pervaded the salons of the 1880s. Its landscape of tight villages, stony shorelines, near primitive Christian rituals and crude effigies was visited by artist after artist, in the hope of finding not only good local color for genre scenes but plenty of metaphysical symbolism as well. "Atheist that I was," Bernard wrote of Brittany, "it made of me a saint. It was this Gothic Brittany which initiated me in art and God." And one can judge the intensity...