Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this as a present, and I am grateful for the present," said Kazhdan, 44, who said he had heard of the awards only once before being notified...
...Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come home now" and expressed her determination to bury her husband on Philippine soil. Said she: "That is my only obsession...
...Woollcott once said, "My doctor forbids me to play unless I win." He played such a vicious game that his friends made a film in which he was burned at the stake for kicking his croquet partner. When Goldwyn died, his wife, who had built the courts as a present to her husband after he could no longer play golf, turned off the water supply. Two days later, says Lufkin, the court was gone and a way of life ended. But that was then...
...Make it easier for large department stores and supermarkets to open. At present, small shops have considerable protection against such competition. Larger stores are more likely to buy and sell more goods from abroad...
Eastern companies that find no single Western partner must eventually seek individual shareholders, either among their own employees or the general population. Ideas have been floated to distribute shares in former state-owned companies to citizens in the form of mutual-fund certificates. At present, ownership of these companies is in limbo, or rather in the hands of a state trustee body, the Treuhandanstalt...