Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, the fortuneteller unfurls her skirts, hoists her bodice, strolls downstage and heckles the audience. Oh, she can tell the future, all right. "Nothing easier," she says. "But who can tell your past, eh? Nobody! You lie awake nights trying to know your past. What did it mean? What was it trying to say to you? Think! Think...
...while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light and the clouds got higher. . . . Sleet began to cling to the plane. That worried me a great deal and I debated whether I should keep on or go back. I decided I must not think any more about going back...
...that some sort of compromise on the negotiations is not out of the question. If Soviet paranoia can be assuaged by good-faith negotiations, perhaps a settlement can be had. And if the West can start to redress the conventional imbalance in Europe, the nuclear question would certainly become easier to handle, if not to solve...
Whether there is a political solution is an open question. If there is, it would certainly have been easier to achieve last year after the evacuation from Beirut of at least 6,000 P.L.O. commandos. Now as many as 2,000 of them are back in the areas to the east and north of Beirut, and Arafat seemed almost unchanged last week (save for the disappearance, perhaps only temporarily, of his famous beard) when he addressed a Palestinian crowd outside the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. Scarcely three months ago, he had been expelled from Syria, which backed...
...Humpty-Dumpty funds" because they try to put AT&T stock back together again after the breakup. Under the plans, shareholders can exchange their AT&T stock for shares in one of the funds. By combining the shares of all eight companies into one security, the funds make it easier for stockholders to hedge their investment bets. In addition, the broker handles all the paperwork, so the stockholder gets only one dividend check a month instead of eight checks every three months. All this convenience comes at a price, however. Brokers are currently charging...