Word: interrupts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Kissinger and other statesmen who have dealt with Kosygin have remarked on the former Premier's fanatic, indeed almost inhuman, devotion to duty. In 1967, when Kosygin learned that his wife Klavdiya was dying, for example, he did not interrupt his working day. When word of her death reached him, he remained atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square until he had finished reviewing a parade. Last week the great survivor's own passing was duly noted by his colleagues in the Kremlin, but was not conspicuously mourned...
University spokesman Arthur Clifford said yesterday the protest did not interrupt classes. Yesterday was the last day of classes before the semester break...
Meese never seems harried and rarely seems to mind when staff members interrupt him. Reports TIME Correspondent Walter Isaacson, after observing Meese in action: "Every time his door opened, there was a staffer sticking his head in with a brief request. 'Sure, no problem,' Meese says over and over...
...Brigades, who scourged the country with guerrilla terror. The military's apparent mistake in fashioning the rejected constitution was the sweeping power it gave itself. Under the vague pretext of national security, it was to have a part in virtually every organ of government, and could interrupt the political process at any time the military chiefs determined that there was an emergency...
...retrieving raw materials, manufacturing goods and distributing products, and the people who do this work and prosper from it will form a powerful influence within each country fighting against any disruption of the system by political elements. It is more difficult for radicals to seize mines, bomb factories or interrupt shipping when they know their own people have an interest in keeping these activities going...