Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career in the other can hardly be blamed for feeling a touch of envy toward their fathers, whose role as sole breadwinner entitled them to dinner on the table and uninterrupted sleep at night. "We can't be pioneers without looking wistfully over our shoulders at jobs that seemed easier, when career paths were clear, when women were subservient, when men could commandeer the heights of established power," says Reich with a wry grin. "There is some real tension in our generation over this phenomenon...
...star witness, Jesus Cruz, a Mexican, and it relied heavily upon his 23 days of testimony. An admitted smuggler of farm workers, Cruz was paid $21,000, in part to infiltrate church meetings and obtain evidence against the Sanctuary workers with a hidden tape recorder. To make the arrests easier, Cruz even asked his Bible-study partners for their addresses, on the pretext of sending them Christmas cards...
After consulting with the rock group, SPAconcluded that the concert would be moresuccessful in the fall, Paton said. "We decidedthat it would be easier to catch the attention ofstudents geared up for a new year than those whoare paranoid about exams and ready to leave forhome," Paton said...
...play baseball for a school specializing in math and science, a proper understanding of angles, parabolic curves, and the like should make sacrifice bunts one of the easier fundamentals to master...
...saplings. Then, after balling the roots in burlap, they ease the trees back into the ground and leave -- only to return at night, using infrared night-vision scopes, and load their booty into trucks. Says Timber Management Assistant Johnny Hodges: "We just find a lot of holes." That is easier than finding the diggers, who face a sentence of ten years and a fine of $10,000, the maximum penalty for stealing Government property. The rangers have yet to catch their first aspen thief...