Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decidedly unreal, a chorus of voices in a buried conscience. In one day Gaston is forced to adopt the guilt of the 18 years he lived as Jacques Renaud, to both condemn and deny the man he once was. The intrigues of the Renand family would certainly be far easier to dramatize, but Director Holly Swartz has opted to focus on the more compelling, psychological drama of Gaston until the tension between guilt, responsibility and freedom reaches a disturbing, unresolved height...
While the computer and pre-medical scholars are sweating it out, those in the humanities say they have an easier academic time of it. "I'm really not working that hard," says a student from New York City, who just completed an optional midterm in an international relations course...
...election in 1960 as the first Roman Catholic President. "The nomination of a woman," says University of North Carolina Political Scientist Schley Lyons, "will have the same kind of impact. Being a Catholic is no longer a factor. If a woman gets elected, it will make it a lot easier for future female politicians to succeed." The first Catholic nominated for President, however, was Al Smith, in 1928, who lost to Herbert Hoover; it was 32 years before another Catholic was nominated and won the White House...
...Every door I open means that they're not going to be discriminated against, and it's going to be a little bit easier for them...
...enthusiasm of American buyers is, in part, belated acknowledgment that U.S. cars have changed. They are more functional and aerodynamic in design, quicker to accelerate and easier to handle. Several models are frank imitations of such high-priced German cars as Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but at prices as much as $20,000 less...