Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommates who owned IBM computers were breathing a little easier last week after having uneasily anticipated the "Columbus Day Computer Virus" earlier this month. Hackers trembled at the prospect of a terminal illness which would wreak destruction upon term papers, lab data and anything else within the grasp of its electronic claws. A Macintosh user down the hall, immune to such plagues, offered some timely advice to stem the virus's spread...
Wall Street, Washington and investors around the world will be watching the market with nervous anticipation to see whether it can shake off its anxiety attack. The Federal Reserve will monitor events carefully to determine whether it should come to the rescue with a dose of easier money, as it did in 1987 to restore confidence. One fervent hope was that high-rolling investors would come roaring back into the market, looking for bargains. But while it was easy to attribute last week's chiller to everything from program trading to superstition about Friday the 13th, there was a deeper...
...feels as if I am standing on a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our company in Ohio has been so well accepted that I believe it is an American company in substance...
...cancer development and established a common pathway by which all cancers seem to evolve. Observed Bishop: "We have the seeds of cancer in our own genetic dowry." Since then researchers have identified more than 40 slightly altered genes that cause cancer in humans. These discoveries will make it easier for doctors to diagnose and predict the occurrence of cancer...
...expression of national naivete, or as a healthy expression of a national ideal that can't always be met in practice. Even from the latter point of view, though, its practical effect is unclear. Does this hypocritical ban on killing in the national interest make actual killing harder? Or easier, by allowing us to "do that kind of thing" while preening that we really don't? I'm not sure. Removing the most surgical tool of war does make the resort to war more difficult. Given our flighty negative enthusiasms -- Gaddafi yesterday, Noriega today -- that may be no bad thing...