Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
...Idaho Fair Share, a local consumer-advocacy group, attacked W.W.P.'s novel plan as a "welfare program for the rich." Company officials, however, respond that hot tubs, which currently cost about $2,000 apiece, are affordable items for most middle-class families. Moreover, W.W.P. maintains, by increasing energy usage the company can hold down rates for all customers. So far, though, most of the utility's frugal customers seem to look upon hot tubs, affordable or not, as frivolous purchases. Only about 30 have bought tubs during the first seven weeks of the program, well short of W.W.P.'s ultimate...
...lackadaisical Huddleston, in his district office and other places where one would be likely to find an assiduous Senator. In the last spot, the dogs finally captured Huddleston -- up a tree. McConnell scored an upset victory. This year, says Senator John Heinz, a Pennsylvania Republican, "I think it's fair to say that every campaign, Republican or Democrat, is looking for the next bloodhound ad. It's a worrisome trend...
...request to regain temporary custody of her five-month-old daughter. Surrounded by reporters and cameramen in the courthouse lobby in Hackensack last week, she told them in a trembling voice, "I have three children, and two of them cannot see their sister. I don't think that's fair...
...Fair Oaks, Calif...