Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
...military bases, five on university campuses and one at a public zoo. At St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, where a McDonald's outlet has replaced the coffee shop, doctors and nurses line up for burgers between rounds. The company has even developed a McDonald's small enough to fit in virtual cracks in the wall: McSnack. These tiny stands, three so far, have been installed in locations too cramped for a regular McDonald's, and offer shortened menus and limited seating...
...publishing house will fit neatly into Murdoch's media domain, built mainly in his native Australia, Britain and the U.S. His holdings now include major newspapers in all three countries, a Hollywood movie studio, and the Sky Channel TV satellite that serves 15 European countries. Murdoch's new TV network, Fox Broadcasting, begins beaming prime-time programs to 108 U.S. stations this week...
...from comfortable with that situation. In fact he finds Japanese economic power "frightening." Nonetheless, he is dead set against protectionism: "What good is it going to do? The Japanese have it all over us in terms of goods. U.S. protectionism is like a spoiled child having an angry fit...
Joan Olsen's class built a jelly bean White House. Reagan showed he can still fit at a sixth-grade desk, and when he and Bennett joined a computerized exercise in how to make a profit from a lemonade stand, Reagan was good- natured about losing to Bennett...