Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer a convenience at all if the price will preclude impulse buying? Gimmicks like this work only if they offer an easier alternative to the status quo. There is a special brand of arrogance in Harvard's assumption that, to every student, the "inconvenience" of spending $5.00 is negligible compared with the inconvenience of pavement pounding in search of classes. If binding the booklets cheaply and distributing them free is prohibitively expensive, the College should simply have them available through Lamont and House Libraries...
...life is in danger, under penalty of life imprisonment for both mother and doctor. That, however, was never an issue. Unlike previous referendums in Spain (1982) and Italy (1981), which resulted in liberalization of tough abortion laws, this poll did not ask Irish voters to make such operations easier to obtain...
...newspapers kept buying U.P.I, just to maintain a competitor for A.P. (which draws 1,299 of the 1,704 U.S. dailies, vs. 629 for U.P.I.). Says Executive Editor David Lawrence of the Detroit Free Press: "We felt that if A.P. were the only game in town, it would be easier for it to become a little arrogant...
Junior Jenny Stricker's second-place finish in the National Sports Festival 3000 meters in June made her a top prospect for that event next summer. The competition is easier for her Canadian roommate, Kate Wiley, although her best distances, 5000 and 10,000 meters, have not yet been included as Olympic events for women. Several female runners are challenging the Olympic or ganizers on that issue in court, but Wiley may eventually make the Canadian squad as a marathoner...
...Paris I had resolved to stop sabotaging myself with sullenness and instead to practice stretching out a smile, no matter how I felt inside. A silly idea, perhaps; but looking back, I believe it had a catalytic effect on the people around me, which in turn made it easier to feel somewhat positive and flexible for the first time in my life...