Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess a program like that is good in that it reminds people of the problems (of alcohol abuse), but you can only slap people in the face to many times," said junior Margaret A. Stimpson...
...dissenting opinion which also appeared potentially represents the "Double Standards' Jeane J. Kirk-Patrick became famous for criticizing in the Carter Administration. I would venture to guess that the same people who denounce "constructive engagement" in South Africa supporting reestablishing detente with the Soviet Union to communicate with the regime perhaps encourage its reform. The dissenters claim that "American fir: is supply computers that monitor the movement of Blacks" and the technology "that the military and police force use to suppress the majority," Well, the high tech items we trade to the Soviet Union are used to stifle opposition...
...tome lays out the creationist views in the form of stories a father beetle tells his son Bomby about the ways of the bombardier family. The text is peppered with scientific terms like amino acids and catalase, but it is so riddled with errors that entomologists cannot begin to guess where Rue got her information. (For example, the beetles do not spray their eggs with tear gas for protection, as the author maintains.) Biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, one of the world's leading bombardier experts, says of the book, "I've never seen anything like...
...long-married woman who reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy: "Don't be silly. He's a nice man. If he had asked me, I would have moved in with him myself...
...very, very rich," he tells a reporter. "That's what you wanted to hear, isn't it? Usually, I just demur. People would like to know exactly how rich I am, but it's none of their goddam business." Of course not, but it is safe to guess that he is probably rich enough to buy Louis XIV's favorite armchair--and everything else in the palace of Versailles. But who would want such froufrou when he could have a genuine Harrison Ford bedside table? "It looks like a bedside table, and that's why I like it," says Ford...