Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes it's better to walk away than stay the distance," said Helen M. Gould '90, vice-chair of the Services Committee. She said that pushing the issue further could "destroy the Undergraduate Council" and leave "a bad taste in the mouth of everybody...
...pitched and precise. Everybody plays to the max, especially Steenburgen, sweet magnolia condescension dripping from every elongated syllable, and Hunter, crazy for acceptance, clinging to Delmount, desperately fanning the summer heat off Elain's body. They serve well this fable about the need to realize that some dreams are better off not coming true, at least in a town where the local tramp is the wisest soul around and the pouting princess is revealed as a frog who needs to put a stethoscope to her own porcelain heart...
...Declaration of Rights, with its ideals of liberty, equality, and the sovereignty of the people. As for the blood that flowed thereafter -- the September Massacres of 1792, the Terror of 1793, and the 1793-94 uprising of the Vendee in which 400,000 died -- the less said the better. The play-it-safe politics of the commemoration is aimed at creating at least the illusion of ideological harmony, the same strategy that has sparked Mitterrand's recent political success. "We're not going to celebrate the guillotine," says Jeanneney. "Our mission is to emphasize the positive...
...expected to cost more than $150 billion in the next ten years. Moreover, the Government has never proved to be an entrepreneurial manager of property, so the real estate it owns is likely to keep diminishing in value. Says thrift consultant William Ferguson: "Bad assets don't usually get better, they get worse. Buildings and sites deteriorate...
...collisions with asteroids and comets? Perhaps. A nuclear warhead aimed right at a small asteroid could vaporize it, says Alan Harris, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there would not be much time...