Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scholars say they often focus on the historical process which has made ongoing changes possible, despite the constant demand for crystal ball gazing...
...replied bluntly, "I think it is terrible." Kennedy agreed and began to write a new one. But before he taunted the builders of the Wall, he rode four hours through the streets of West Berlin in the midst of a human fury of adoration intensified by the city's constant isolation. Nothing before in Kennedy's exuberant political life had approached this demonstration of between 1 million and 2 million cheering, roaring Germans...
...director Amy Cabranes accepts Durang's heavy-handed script much too readily, and rather than toning down the rhetoric, Cabranes has the actors hype the play's already overblown elements. Hernandez's bubble-blowing, Snoopy-wielding analyst comes off well the first time, but a constant repetition of the same sight gags and crazy word substitutions (Hernandez says "porpoise" when she means "patient" at least six times) rapidly becomes unconvincing. Some subtlety would have been nice; we don't need to see Hernandez in a pink nightgown with a teddy to know that her behavior is childish...
Bloch also acknowledged that the federal government's support for science research has been insufficient. As the percentage of the American Gross National Product spent on research has stayed constant at about 2.8 percent in recent years, Japan's has doubled during the same period...
...early days, the Times often misstepped. Wire copy on Moon's conviction for tax evasion was doctored. The newsroom became a revolving-door workplace, with constant turnover and inexperienced staffers. During last year's presidential race, the Times, pursuing a rumor about Michael Dukakis' receiving psychiatric treatment, twisted a quote from Dukakis' sister-in-law to manufacture a headline: DUKAKIS KIN HINTS AT SESSIONS. Two reporters quit in protest...