Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every Kremlin big shot is portrayed as an evil-empire builder. He has not anticipated the end of the Afghan war, and the Pentagon procurement scandal is not foreshadowed. Complicated weapons systems usually work, and no U.S. military officer or enlisted person is less than true blue. Fair enough. Accepting Clancy's word on such matters for the duration of a flight is less strenuous and far more reassuring than pulling up hard on your seat handles to keep the plane...
When he sings, it surely seems to. For his years, he has done a fair amount of living, not all of it above the law, and he has a voice that can really sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This...
...fair senator," McElroy said. "He's been fair to minorities in Texas. He has a long-standing civil rights record. I think he's going to be a good vice-president...
...believe that America needs more trade, fair trade, an administration willing . . . to better manage our trade in order to export more American goods and fewer American jobs...
Trade was the hottest issue in the early primaries, and here in one sentence are three seemingly contradictory Democratic proposals. Follow the bouncing ball from "more trade" (Dukakis) to "fair trade" (Richard Gephardt) to halting the export of "American jobs" (Jackson...