Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feasibility and practicality of joint space-engineering activities that might pave the way to a joint manned mission to Mars." In a Huntsville, Ala., speech, Vice President George Bush urged a "long-term commitment to manned and unmanned exploration of the solar system. There is much to be done -- further exploration of the moon, a mission to Mars...
Monette, a poet and novelist, gushes awkwardly about this brief golden age: "Roger and I were busy getting ready for a four-day trip to Big Sur, something we'd done almost yearly since moving to California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works...
...past half-year, the downsize dollar has finally done wonders for U.S. trade problems. By making American products more competitive overseas and foreign imports more expensive at home, the smaller dollar helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit to just $9.9 billion in April, the lowest in more than 2 1/ 2 years. But in the past two weeks, the dollar has climbed 5.9% against Japan's currency, to 133 yen at the end of June, and 3.7% vs. West Germany's, to 1.81 marks. That still leaves it 48% below its peak 3 1/2 years...
...done this before, but always in Spanish. Nothing But the Truth is his first record in English, and, with collaboration from the likes of Elvis Costello, Sting and, most formidably, Lou Reed, he has fashioned eleven songs that range wide and pierce deep, all sharing a similar theme. "Violence is love gone crazy" is the way he puts it, with the same snazzy elan and offhand humor that make him such an affable and adept screen actor. He seems easy with it all: sweeping rock, laid-back jazz, Latin-inflected pop. Recently he reflected on the album on a film...
Among Latinos, Spanglish conversations often flow easily from Spanish into several sentences of English and back again. "It is done unconsciously," explains Carmen Silva-Corvalan, a Chilean-born associate professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California, who speaks Spanglish with relatives and neighbors. "I couldn't even tell you minutes later if I said something in Spanish or in English...