Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small states of the isthmus could pull Mexico to the left, confronting the U.S. with a populous (75 million) enemy along a 2,000-mile, at present, undefended border. It is not only in Washington that this thought crops up. Soviet officials have mused aloud about how much easier their worldwide competition with the U.S. would be if American energies were diverted by a Western Hemisphere analogy to the threat the U.S.S.R. faces along its own border with a hostile China...
...have been accepted. For those who will not get their chance on television, help may nevertheless be on the way. KBS-TV and the government have combined forces to process all of the applicants' data into a single computer bank, a step that could make locating lost relatives easier. The South Korean Red Cross is helping by registering families seeking missing relatives at its local offices. They will all have plenty to do. By one estimate, as many as 10 million Korean families were broken...
...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...
...were music permits all these disjointed adventures to fit together. Not only does he weave melodies together by continuously introducing new themes and variations and literally orchestrating an amazing crescendo for the book's finale, but he also fashions the words like musical phrases which makes them easier to understand. A mild example might be the exchange between Blue and congressman Hal Gulbit, recently accused of sexual impropriety with sheep...
Tony is not halfway to the end of his adventures when he follows Miss Doubloon to her home town. Absurdities interrupt non sequiturs. Plot grows so complicated that it seems easier to tell than summarize. But De Vries is only half kidding. The fine cutting edge of his comic vision comes, as always, from the sense that there is hell to pay. The author, a resident staffer at The New Yorker, was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and he is a past master at striking antithetical poses. He is at once the liberal humanist, tolerantly condoning free expression and yearnings...