Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terrorist acts are hardly frequent, and one has a greater chance of being struck by a bolt of lightning. So the fear, I must conclude, is manifested falsely by our press. Couple this with a weakening dollar overseas, and you get a rather American-less Europe...
...currently fashionable to blame political ills on the media, a trend that threatens the First Amendment and wrongly shifts the onus from politicians to their chroniclers and frequent adversaries. However, Hillson is right in observing ruefully that the news media decides which candidates are viable and ignores the rest, behavior hardly consistent with democratic ideals...
...Poland, it seems, while nothing is really new, a good deal has changed. Though frequent demonstrations show that opposition still runs deep, Jaruzelski was able to put on a triumphant face before the congress. Solidarity, perhaps the greatest threat to Communist rule in the East bloc since Czechoslovakia's uprising in 1968, had at last been all but crushed after the capture two weeks earlier of Zbigniew Bujak, the underground's mastermind. Former leaders who are free, like Lech Walesa, the sturdy electrician from Gdansk, have withdrawn from public life. Partly because of Solidarity's collapse, the Catholic Church...
...grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back: a two-month-old frequent-flyer program known as Travel Reward, which awards free flights to steady customers in the same manner as standard airlines...
...their own frequent accounts in the public prints, the Lloyds are prone to slight disagreements. He has liked rock music; she has liked a rock musician. But they differ on nothing else quite as much as tennis. To Chris, "It's in your blood, putting something on the line every day. It's a great feeling when you win. And when you lose, I think you're wiser." But the Englishman she married in 1979 never regarded tennis as a blood sport or a life. While Chris expressed eagerness even for practice, John had to admit, "It was such...