Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predictability does not make it any easier to stop. Just ask the six Ivy squads who have fallen to the Elis this season. Given Yale's accomplishments, there is obviously some validity to the bone as an effective offensive philosophy...
...mortgage interest deduction also benefits from its low political visibility. It's easier to spend $30 billion through the tax code than to mail out one million checks for $30,000. It wasn't until 1974 that Congress and the President were even required to list the revenue loss of "tax expenditures" such as the mortgage interest deduction as costs on the budget...
Although Sofia's police were frightened enough to rough up Ecoglasnost, which has just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they arrested Jiri Ruml and Rudolf Zeman, well-known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding...
...third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic than to explain what's really going...
...national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole...