Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that have been held by the finance ministers of the five other nations...
There are comments Green could add ("Your overweening self-pity. Your penchant for purple prose"). When Pierce flies back to New York for a Christmas visit with his family, he is secretly affronted by their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
Meanwhile, people sleep on the streets while our tax dollars are at work waging war in Central America. We know we really ought to find the time and the courage to do something about it. (Things to do today: call insurance broker, add to IRA, smash the state...
...nation's viewers. Programming will include sitcoms, action-adventure shows and movies, little different from current network fare. But Fox executives claim their shows will be less subject to mass-audience pressures. "If we've got a good male action series," says FBC President Jamie Kellner, "we won't add children, dogs and females to make it appeal to other demographics." Though some are skeptical that Murdoch can enlist enough strong independent stations to become a full-scale competitor, industry observers are impressed so far. The signing of Rivers "reveals a couple of things," says Edward * Atorino, a media analyst...
...doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even help their grades. Mr. Smith chose only to portray every college major in its worst stereotypical light. Attitudes such as these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages," by being able to entice the students at Wellesley and Lesley. Are these advantages available only to men, or are women also subject to attack...