Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched from script to print.) As for the age change, which apparently occurred about the time Hart turned 30, "There's nothing sinister there. There is no benefit to me from it. It didn...
...pressure is on, he says, "to do it right the first time." At a Buick plant in Flint, Mich., a worker monitors the reliability of springs on a computer screen, rejecting those that do not measure up. Says Utilityman James Adkins: "I like it. It makes my job easier...
Pickens teamed up with several partners and began buying up Gulf shares when they were worth $39. By October 14, Pickens owned about 9 percent of Gulf, and he tried to squeeze himself into Gulf's management to make it easier to buy more...
...Hart's standing in the polls rose last week, the question became easier to answer. Gloated Political Strategist Pat Caddell, who advises Hart: "It's everybody at the moment." Caddell agreed that the Senator's early support was concentrated in a "generational" base of voters from their 20s to their early 40s. But in the Vermont primary, Caddell pointed out, some surveys showed Hart outpolling former Vice President Walter Mondale more than 2 to 1 among the 45-to-59 age group and seniors over 60. Other breakdowns similarly showed that Hart's appeal has spread...
Show business accepts innocence only if it can be sentimentalized; Jackson's world of fantasy is easier to dismiss with malicious gossip than understand with sympathy. "On some level, I don't even know whether it's conscious or not, Michael knows that he has to stand off the demands of reality and protect himself," Jane Fonda points out. Jackson spent more than a week with Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond, talking far into the night about "acting, life, everything. Afrinight about "acting, life, everything. Africa. Issues. We talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual...