Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done well tended to say things like, " 'See, I'm really smart. I knew it all along. This is just proof,'" Sanford said. Men who had done poorly tended to say, " 'The questions were trick questions. The professor's out to get me.'" On the other hand, women who had done well responded, " 'I got lucky,'" while those who did not attributed it to laziness, she said...
...phrase passes the lips of Washington politicians more easily than "bipartisan commission" -- except, of course, for that old standby, "blue-ribbon panel." Over the years these august bodies have contemplated practically every vexing issue, from Central America to Social Security. Although the commissions rarely solve the problem at hand, they invariably buy time for the responsible authorities to put off unpleasant decisions, sometimes ! indefinitely. The latest commission with a formidable mission came into being last week, when the National Economic Commission began its search for ways of reducing the federal budget deficit...
That learning has already come for Richard Coombes, a lanky Missourian. Despite much self-doubt, Coombes has made it through the school with a 91.4 average. As instructors pump his hand, the ex-store clerk clutches a diploma in tractor-trailer driving and grins broadly. "I kept telling myself, 'You can do it. You can do it.' " He sallies into the Texas night, now a king of the road with a new measure of self-esteem: "I can't think of anything that hasn't been hauled in a truck," he says...
...help for Texas banks and savings and loans (including one in which he has an interest) or acting as a middleman for the U.S. and Canada on bilateral trade, the techniques are the same: press flesh, build relationships, probe for strengths and weaknesses. If he can't shake your hand, he'll give you a call. Strauss spends hours a day on the phone, staying in touch with his network of friends, his cello-like Texas drawl coming through as either a low, world- weary growl or a tone much higher on the scale when he's angry or excited...
...paunchy, middle-aged Mexican is lying on the side of the track. His arm is bleeding, and he has been hit in the stomach. An agent radios for an ambulance. "He turned on us with this," says Trevino, a 9-mm semiautomatic Taurus pistol in his hand. "We were lucky, real lucky...