Word: listening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church leaders remain blind to the fact that this abomination, the new prayer book [Aug. 13], is a much more explosive issue than the ordination of women. Personally I wouldn't argue with an optional "Hi there, God" liturgy as long as I didn't have to listen...
...talked out of the plan, finally agreeing that it was too risky. Brzezinski was just as anxious to journey to Moscow when the SALT II negotiations stalled. "These State Department guys are too soft," he told one of his associates. "I can make the Soviets sit up and listen...
Chicago Adman David Lewis knows the answer, and he is telling everyone who will listen: Rula Lenska is the 31-year-old daughter of a Polish émigré count and lives in London. She was featured as a rock singer in the British TV series Rock Follies and as a character in a never released film, Queen Kong. What fascinated Lewis, who had nothing to do with the hair spray commercials, was this obscure actress's hopeful pretense of being a famous star. As a lark, he founded the Rula Lenska Fan Club-and soon found that some...
...practice is to hire "investigators" to interview the grieving relatives and drop the name of a "highly recommended" attorney. After crashes abroad, American lawyers have been known to travel to the villages where the victims lived, rent a hall and then invite the heirs to come and listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel...
...traditional services, such as counseling, educating and comforting. In their view, hospitals are too bureaucratic to allow true nursing. Says Nurse Annette Swackhamer of New York City: "Doctors have the misconception that nursing is physical care." In fact, she says, the frenetic hospital milieu does not let nurses listen to a patient much or involve the family...