Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picks up a telephone. "When I need parts I call, and the next day they're here. Try that in the Far East." The Mexican connection enables managers from the headquarters of U.S. firms to visit their factories quickly and frequently. "Twentysix miles is a lot easier than 8,000," said Allen Roshon, president of San Diego's Computer Accessories, which operates a plant in nearby Tijuana...
...giving birth to Daughter Kimberly, her thoughts stayed at home. As a result, her work suffered. Recalls Cortez: "I went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang, the toddler spends the day learning, playing and napping with...
...issues has been rampant as shareholders bought in, held briefly, then sold for a quick profit. The fact that relatively few investors have participated in ownership of the companies worries Thatcher's Conservatives. Without millions of shareholders to contend with, a new Labor government might have an easier time shifting back to state control...
...Republicans gathered in Dallas this week: they have no great need to make their convention a gripping TV show. Unlike the Democrats who met in San Francisco last month, the Republicans need not seize the nation's attention for their ticket and message. Their task is the much easier one of riding along with a remarkably buoyant, upbeat mood in the nation-by some measures, the most euphoric in at least a decade-and doing nothing that might erode the comfortable lead that Ronald Reagan had built before the first delegate arrived in Texas...
...military officers that "sounded as if they were coming from occupation leaders." Of course, West Germany will probably never be entirely comfortable with U.S. forces on its soil. Despite the drawbacks, however, many West Germans would admit that the gains in morale and readiness should make that presence easier to bear for both sides. - By George Russell...