Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, the legislation would make it easier for corporations to set up shareholder rights plans, or "poison pill" defenses, which boost the price of a takeover by giving shareholders an automatic right to buy additional shares...
When people meet Michael and I together for the first time, we find it much easier to tell them that the same last name is just a coincidence. "We're all God's children," I like to tell them. When pressured, I will admit the relation. But he still prefers to keep up with the routine...
...1920s the Soviet leadership talked of engaging in social engineering through education and propaganda to transform its feudal subjects into enlightened socialists -- a "Homo sovieticus" who would be compassionate and informed. Instead, these regimes found it easier to control their citizens by reinforcing their worst instincts, most of which derived from peasant attitudes...
...seniors and can raise your voice above the din, senior bars can be a good opportunity to see once more those friends that you know you'll lose touch with after Commencement. The problem is that conversation inevitably reduces to The Question. Sometimes I wish I could make things easier and less painful by saying, OK, let's go around the room. What are you doing next year...
Reading Lawrence's story, not as he polished it in Seven Pillars of Wisdom but as he parceled it out to friends, does not finally resolve the enigma of his character or explain his place in history. He would be easier to understand if he were simply larger than life or what his detractors claimed: a self-aggrandizing charlatan. But he took no pleasure in his notoriety; he ran from it. The Selected Letters adds another interpretation to an already overwrought tale. The age demanded a hero, Lawrence qualified, and the 20th century then got what it deserved: a loner...