Word: almost
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...Washington was "the problem" when Reagan took office in 1981, it looks like a costly irrelevancy today. After almost nine years of the Reagan Revolution, Americans may wonder whether the Government -- from Congress to the White House, from the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget -- can govern at all anymore...
...loss, quest and endurance. The record is so intense that when Jones sings Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive, a nifty reggae tune, the optimism cuts deep because so much that's come before has been so unsparing. The song is a victory cry from a performer who almost counted herself out. Now she's back, looking like her old self: the most gifted woman on the scene...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...
Nevada, by disposition, is a freewheeling state where almost anything goes. But lately Nevadans have begun to talk limits. This summer the state legislature passed the first mining-reclamation bill in its history. Already the more progressive companies have embarked on efforts to ameliorate the eyesores their mining operations have created. The Pinson Mine on the Getchell Trend, in which Livermore has an interest, is actively transforming waste-rock dumps into gently rolling hills planted with sagebrush, bitterbrush and crested wheat. Freeport-McMoRan, for its part, has hired a wildlife biologist to take charge of its reclamation activities...
...grand visionary scheme has been more than two decades in the making, but this year it has come into full flower. Almost 30,000 people work in the World Financial Center, four stunning towers that won new laurels for internationally renowned architect Cesar Pelli and Canada-based developers Olympia & York. In the financial district, where the last broker to leave Wall < Street used to put out the cat each night, more than 6,000 residents have settled into the thicket of 19 new apartment buildings, creating a flourishing neighborhood. Upwards of 40 restaurants and glossy shops have followed. This week...