Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some applicants who really want to attend Harvard may be more apt to apply early to Princeton, Yale or Brown because those schools have higher acceptance rates and provide a greater chance of early acceptance...
...always unwise for a President to get hypnotized by the world's complaints about the way he conducts business. Nudging a great nation into a new course pinches a lot of people. Likewise, the Chief Executive who reads the domestic polls every night for political guidance is apt to be paralyzed each morning. The leader who views every White House catfight as apocalyptic will be a nervous wreck in his first year. Ronald Reagan is not guilty on any count...
...image from the travel brochure that still rings true, an apt metaphor for a region blessed by God and not yet ruined by man, is the sturdy mangrove. It is found nowhere in the U.S. but Florida. With its gnarled roots stretching down into salty water that would kill most other plants, the mangrove traps silt, shelters wildlife and otherwise improves whatever it touches. Through boom and bust, hurricanes and real estate development, the mangrove has stood its ground. South Floridians surely will too. ? By James Kelly. Reported by Bernard Diederich and William McWhirter/Miami...
...FRAMEWORK is clearly apt when so few details need to be tampered with. All the modernizations are properly minimal, though an anachronism or two grates on the nerves--nobody holds bear-baitings in a Hollywood garden. The romantic setting proves its appropriateness most triumphantly in the discovery of a way to get away with Malvolio's yellow stockings (an imaginative coup too tunny to reveal...
...Trojan Horse metaphor is apt. This is an administration engaged in a far-reaching war against the great mass of the American people in an effort to aid the wealthy. So far, bamboozelement--the extraordinary ability of our president to get millions of Americans to send telegrams, for instance--has enticed the mass to fight against its own interests. Now they must turn to face Reagan and the battle must be joined. Stockman's candor, like one loose thread in a beautiful sweater, provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry that have characterized the administration's program...