Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military aid to the Philippines, effectively paralyzing all operations against the Communists. Aquino, says U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, "has to organize her armed forces and find persons she can depend upon to probe these grievances and pull together an organization that she can depend on." Adds Lugar: "This is easier described than done...
...theory, at least, a bull market makes it easier for businesses to raise money for expansion and modernization by selling new stock. That effect may be muffled because big companies have run up worrisome debts either carrying out acquisitions or fighting off takeovers. But smaller firms are raising huge amounts of cash by selling their stock to the public for the first time. In just the first seven months of this year, once private companies raised $17.4 billion through initial public offerings, or two-thirds more than in the same period...
Lewis is no easier on himself. Rising before dawn in his Manhattan brownstone house, he puts in eleven-hour workdays. He has a reputation for being an intense and demanding perfectionist who hates to lose, even in a tennis match. Says TLC Counsel Charles Clarkson: "Some people may say that he is difficult, but he focuses on what has to be done...
...emotions are easier to evoke than fear and pity. But comedy is hard. It takes Astaire timing and kamikaze cojones to stand on a stage or a sound stage and do this: wear a novelty-store arrow on your head; blow up balloons, twist them into animal shapes and announce the resulting sculpture as "venereal disease!"; tap-dance maniacally when seized with an attack of "Happy Feet"; then build a movie career running variations on a character you might call the suburban jerk. And mainly this: wait bravely for years until your public gets the comic point...
...lesser woodcutter would have to use to direct their fall. He dropped each tree precisely where he wanted it, blocked up on underbrush, the butt end hinged by a sliver of the tree's outer edge. He cut the heavier ends to 16-in. lengths to make them easier to load. Branches and tops were cut longer. He spent no more than ten minutes on a tree and walked surely through the brush with his chain saw running...