Word: faintness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis, obviously, is no Hippolytus. He has given his hostage to the gods of love in Kitty. He can be moved by the plight of others; he can faint at the bloody reality of pain, be disarmed at the sight of real Athenians, waver when his friend misleads him about a campaign trick. But he does radiate to voters his own sense of being chosen. Sam Beer, Harvard's famous professor of government, who taught Dukakis at Swarthmore, says, "He was born to rule." He was always the Inevitable Michael. Things fall into place for him as by plan...
...there is the faint question that comes with the endless wind. How long before this drought tumbles the old records? Then what? Malard shrugs. The last good rain he felt on his face was in August 1987. In March of this year a 10-in. blizzard roared in and hit his area. He waited it out in his house, daring to hope that this was a break in the dryness and that a normal spring of rain would follow. It did not. Instead came the heat and the wind. Malard gets up every morning by 6 and checks...
Even as his faint hopes of stopping Dukakis'nomination were being snuffed out, Jackson was atwork on the next phase of his campaign. He said hehad earned "the option" of a vice presidentialoffer, vowed a floor fight at the convention ifDukakis doesn't toughen his position against SouthAfrica and pressed for changes in delegate rules...
...have suffered a devastating blow when the stock market crashed last October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off enough steam to inspire fears that it may actually be overheating. Forget about a recession, many economists counsel, and start worrying about inflation. Once a faint and far-off danger, rising prices may now pose the gravest threat to economic stability...
...around Tucson, the "astronomy capital of the world," may bristle with telescopes, but they are mighty rare in the remainder of the world. There are about 500 American astronomers who publish at least one scholarly paper a year; there are only eight telescopes large enough to see the extremely faint and faraway objects of interest to many of them...