Word: mr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...
...oppression. Ronald Reagan in 1987, standing at the Brandenburg Gate with his back to the barrier, was the most recent in a long line of visiting Western leaders who challenged the Communists to level the Wall if they wanted to prove that they were serious about liberalizing their societies. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!" cried the President. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" There was no answer from Moscow at the time; only nine months ago, Honecker vowed that the Wall would remain for 100 years...
Certainly now is not the time for complacency. According to Mr. Ronald Quincy, director of Harvard's Affirmative Action Office, compared with a pool of eight prestigious universities, Harvard ranks eighth in numbers of tenured women faculty, fifth in minority tenured faculty, sixth in nontenured women faculty, and sixth in nontenured minority faculty. Harvard's own Affirmative Action Plan for 1989 states that "On the basis of the university's formula to determine underutilization of women and minorities, FAS currently shows a shortfall of 17 senior and 11 (tenure) ladder female faculty...
...relax," the Times revealed, "Mr. Giuliani sometimes drives his Cadillac Seville through the Hudson Valley, classical music filling...
...Bush has approached this new step in U.S.-Soviet relations with his characteristic prudence. In a time of dynamic social and political upheaval in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself, Bush said, "I just didn't want to miss something, something that I might get better firsthand from Mr. Gorbachev." The Soviet President has been less patient. In late October, Gorbachev said privately that for months he had been exasperated with the Bush Administration's slow and uncertain response to the shifts in Kremlin policy. He was beginning to suspect, he said, that Washington believed if it waited long...