Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules of proportionality. This point requires an understanding of the high stakes that were involved in these student demonstrations: students could be subject to very unpleasant consequences ranging from criminal prosecutions--and sure convictions--to assignment of undesirable jobs at the end of college careers. If we had a faint faith in human rationality, we would most likely assume that students would pursue their culinary pleasures and vanity in less heroic avenues...
...even her Cabinet colleagues with the kind of affectionate sternness she lavishes on her children. She allows no smoking in her office, and she expects all the President's men to be prompt and tireless. Once she told Chief Speechwriter Teodoro Locsin to dress less like a gangster. The faint air of maternalism is heightened by her habit of referring to "my people," "my Cabinet," and even, most disconcertingly, "my generals...
...wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze -- and all the rest...
This week's cover story on the stock market and its gyrations was not a task for a numberphobe or the technologically faint of heart. "After nuclear proliferation, this is the most complicated cover I've ever tackled," says Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the story. Following a stint as TIME's Buenos Aires bureau chief from 1979 to 1981, Russell returned to write in the World section for five years, then switched last March to Economy & Business. "Wars and coups are very decisive -- stories tend to write themselves when people are killing each other," he observes...
...midweek and the President's calm assurances that she does "not feel threatened by Minister Enrile," some prophesied Enrile's dismissal, others his resignation. There were predictions that Enrile would try to wring concessions from Aquino that would render the President a figurehead. Some officials even heard the faint rumbles of a coup. All agreed, however, that Aquino was facing the toughest political challenge since she assumed office...