Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasonably low chance of real cosmetic benefit." Moreover, if the applications are discontinued, the new hair disappears within a few months and balding continues at its previous pace. Says New York Dermatologist Stephen Kurtin: "The biggest resistance to minoxidil is not that the results may be only fair, but that it is a lifetime commitment...
...Federal Aviation Administration play fair when the company won a $3.6 billion contract to upgrade the computers in the U.S. air-traffic- control system? No way, according to losing bidder Hughes Aircraft, which last week persuaded the General Services Administration to suspend the contract pending an investigation...
...Richard III in doublets and armor or as giddily updated as The Taming of the Shrew transported to 1950s Italy. Shakespeare, which makes up at least half the schedule, can be complemented by the sober heft of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral or spritzed with My Fair Lady in an ingeniously extravagant production that bejewels the stage with chandeliers, dinner jackets and hats. Oedipus can share the schedule with The Three Musketeers and Irma la Douce...
Ailes also prepped Bush for the Showdown at Black Rock. Foreseeing that the CBS Evening News interview would be an ambush, Ailes provided Bush with a riposte to an aggressive Dan Rather: "It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?" The tactic illustrates an Ailes axiom: when attacked, hit back so hard your opponent rues the day he got nasty...
What is troubling is that for men of such young ages, who have had so little time to accomplish much of anything, they all seem to have found plenty of time to become entangled in personally embarrassing episodes. It is not fair to expect that someone who is not yet a half-century old will have a long and distinguished record of public service. And by and large the public is charitable on that score...