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Word: aptness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comparisons aren't completely apt, because Christy's newest store is only about 70 percent completed. In October, the Mt. Auburn store will bring a new twist to late-night snacking when it opens a full-line deli and produce section that promises to rival White Hen Pantry's Sandwich Works...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such as this." But if the city is drained of color, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

While professors yesterday praised President Derek C. Bok's convocation address as an apt statement of the role universities should play in society, they were doubtful of the University's ability to prevent outside demands from competing with scholars' academic pursuits...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Profs Question Feasibility of Bok Speech | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...growing number of Government experts suggest that if the American economy fails now, the consequences may be more disastrous than at any other time in our history. "Reagan could go from the most popular President of these times to the most reviled," says Busby. "A crisis now is apt to go beyond just economics. We would have a nation in social upheaval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Colliding with Realities | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...made perfect sense if you talked with somebody a lot. But as the practice has grown, it has become more of a test: you are not only supposed to know the voice that you may not have heard for a month but to know it immediately. Any hesitation is apt to lead to a pained, "You don't even recognize me." One has to develop strategies. Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in a Name? | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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