Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the U.S. Open came around, scarcely anyone doubted that Graf would romp. Her task was made even easier when Navratilova exited prematurely in the quarterfinals after a fabulous seesawing bout, probably the fortnight's best, with Zina Garrison. It was a particularly melancholy end for Navratilova, who during 1983-84 won six consecutive majors and contends that she too has won the slam. Few, however, agree: the slam, like all classic stories, must adhere to certain unities of time and space, the calendar year being one of them...
Takeshita's task was made easier by an abrupt turnaround in the balance of trade between the two countries, another source of irritation to Beijing. In 1985 a flood of Japanese consumer goods into China ballooned trade between the two nations to $19 billion, with Japan enjoying a $6 billion surplus. Since then China has cut back on imports and dramatically increased exports to Japan. For the first six months of 1988, trade was up to a record $10.3 billion, but now China enjoys a $530 million surplus...
...students cannot get into bars, most of them know upperclassmen who can buy alcohol. College officials fear that when students drink in their own rooms, out of the public eye, they are more likely to lose control. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that students find hard liquor easier to conceal than beer, but have had little previous experience with...
...cedars? Stay in your car. Keep to the main roads. Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut trees along the tourist highways. It is prettier that way. It is also easier for the Forest Service, which has fewer letters of outrage to answer about the scarification that used to be a coastal rain forest...
Those pictures also brought to Mapplethorpe's basically conservative style the electrical charge of the forbidden. Take that away, and it becomes easier to see that he has a classicist's taste for the symmetrical, the serene, the perfected, the imperishable. But against it he plays a romantic's fascination with forceful material that classical form cannot digest. In his male nudes, mostly of black men, the genitals present themselves with a frankness that explodes the composition. In his pictures of female Body Builder Lisa Lyon, the photographic conventions that ordinarily apply to the male anatomy -- flexed muscles, sculptural lighting...