They're suddenly finding a receptive ear.
But few Dagestanis now believe in a brighter future.Instead, more of them are turning a receptive ear to Islamic extremism.
Price found a receptive ear in Hugo Hillebrandt, a Hungarian revolutionary who had fought with Garibaldi in Italy before joining the Union cause as a federal agent.
"I said, 'Don't do anything about TV until I talk to you,' " said Ebersol, who had no openings in his sports schedule, but found a receptive ear from NBC's entertainment division on low-rated Saturday night.
After being rejected by nearly every Hollywood studio throughout the 60's, he finally found a receptive ear in Richard Zanuck, who was then head of production at Fox.
Legal scholars say that nearly a quarter- century after President Jimmy Carter began naming large numbers of women and minorities to the federal bench, women jurists are lending a measurably more receptive ear than males to cries of gender discrimination.
He had written his own epitaph: " Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this our battle cry may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons".
Within a day of Iraq's dual announcements, oil sales surged back after having dwindled, ruinously, to a third of normal levels earlier this month.But Iraq's fellow-Arabs are bending a receptive ear to America's belated charm offensive.
