Word: entered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jumbos enter the game with an 0-1 record...
...about 90 percent. In the sixth grade, when I spent Tuesday afternoons getting kicked by my unwilling partners in dancing school, they dropped to 76 percent. When I graduated from high school, they plummeted to 66 percent. It's a little disconcerting to find out that now, as I enter the third decade of my life, a total stranger has assessed my marriageability at a miserable 60 percent, just a shade better that a fenced 50-50. Now I know what the Princess of Wales felt like when London bookies were laying odds...
...judicious presentation of pros and cons, and extremely funny besides. Near the end of his life, watching TV reports of the war for the Falkland Islands, Simeon complains to his wife: "What we're doing is going round in circles. I mean, is this where we came in?" To enter this novel is to join an eddy of wisdom and comic resignation...
Less than a month after Hyundai Motor America introduced the $4,995 subcompact Excel, the first South Korean-made car to enter the U.S. market, company officials have discovered a problem that could result in complete brake failure. During routine predelivery checks, Hyundai inspectors found that a critical pin was improperly installed in the braking system of three cars. Though no accidents have been reported, the company took no chances. Moving fast, Hyundai executives last week voluntarily recalled all the 4,400 Excels sold in the U.S. Owners were promised free inspections and repairs by Hyundai dealers...
...into the lower class. The issues being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother...