Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet Asian leaders are now well aware that Congress has the power to oppose any new U.S. military involvement in the Orient. Thus the uncertainties of the congressional response to some future challenge to an American commitment complicated Ford's attempts to sound reassuring. Singapore's Lee, who...
But this year, the "first returns" on the highly-rated students' acceptances presaged a disaster: the Ec department, in April, seemed to be losing almost all of its favored applicants to MIT's supposedly more "faculty accessible" department. When all the student acceptances were in, Griliches found the Ec department...
I can't say I saw The Towering Inferno in a critically impartial state of mind. On the one hand, I was driving back from Danvers with some friends after a lobster dinner and felt like seeing a movie, any movie, when the Liberty Tree Mall loomed up out of...
You have to ignore lines like that if you're going to enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael...
For some companies, a recall can spell financial disaster. For example, the Food and Drug Administration, which also has jurisdiction over radiation-emitting products, recently ordered the recall of 400,000 Panasonic color-television sets, almost 280,000 of which were in the hands of consumers. The FDA suspected the...