Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much easier to vote for this resolution than against it. It's the more emotional side." Keyser said, adding that "the initial reaction will probably be negative towards Falwell although that may change when be speaks. He's a very reasonable speaker...
...second point is easier to refute, simply by virtue of its absurdity. Harvard's sale of stock in corporations which do any part of their business in South Africa (and the bulk of the firms under discussion, including IBM, GM, Ford, and ITT, do a minuscule amount of business there) will be welcomed gladly by a myriad of investors around the world, who will snap up the stocks and never consider the moral heinousness of apartheid. And South Africa itself would like nothing better than to have all stock in companies operating within its borders owned by silent and uncaring...
...Harris, tanner extraordinaire in the comic strip Doonesbury, had the right idea, just an outdated approach. To prepare for big tanning competitions like the George Hamilton Cocoa Butter Open, Zonker would spend hours under the sun with an old-fashioned reflector. Today, seekers of the perfect tan have an easier time of it: they simply drop by the neighborhood tanning salon, cozy up to a bank of ultraviolet lamps and emerge looking as if they have just returned from Hawaii. "The ordinary person who can't afford a vacation can get a lasting tan for a fraction of the money...
Economic necessity, not serendipity, will push libraries into the computer age. Electronic data are easier to store and cheaper to move from place to place than printed material. On the other hand, most readers prefer browsing through books and magazines to reading little green words on a video screen. And nobody seems eager to take on the Herculean task of transcribing into bits and bytes the vast body of knowledge already stored in printed volumes. "The book is here to stay," says New York Public Library President Vartan Gregorian, who presided over that library's computerization. "What we're doing...
Finally, the Japanese, who often sit on the sidelines during international economic turmoil, could help settle currency markets by making it easier for foreigners to invest in securities denominated in yen. The country should speed up its efforts to bring down import barriers and thus reduce its gigantic trade surplus, which is expected to reach $55 billion this year...