Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Composing an ad with oneself as the product is an interesting psychological exercise, and probably good training in self-assertion. Truth will endure a little decorative writing, perhaps. The personals are a form of courtship that is more efficient, and easier on the liver, than sitting in bars night after night, hoping for a lucky encounter. Yet one feels sometimes a slightly disturbed and forlorn vibration in those columns of chirpy pleading. It is inorganic courtship. There is something severed, a lost connection. One may harbor a buried resentment that there are not parents and aunts and churches and cotillions...
...year ago, 70 riders went on the trip, and while they raised $200,000--twice as much money as this year's group--organizers say the smaller number was easier to work with because it put less of a strain on the host communities...
...Minneapolis grants lines that typically total about $25,000 and can exceed $100,000. Norwest also offers lending programs for cars and boats that can cut monthly payments nearly in half. The loans run for several years and then come due in a lump sum. Automakers too are extending easier terms. Ford Motor Credit estimates that 45% of its 1985 lending has been for 60 months, rather than the 36-month period that was previously typical...
...Boston, they spell it pastromi, and pronounce it a little differently, but increasingly, it is becoming easier to locate a sandwich of it on a bulkie roll, no less, in the wee hours of the morning...
...history at California State University at Fullerton, "are moving at about the same level of acculturation as the Poles and Italians earlier in the century. Once they've made it, they tend to move out of the ghetto and melt into the rest of society." Asians often have it easier because they come from urban middle-class backgrounds. "They are the most highly skilled of any immigrant group our country has ever had," says Kevin McCarthy, a demographer at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif...