Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have I. So has Schlesinger. The question, especially in a time of tight defense budgets, is which strategic programs to pursue. The B-1 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative suffer from serious technical problems. To question these programs is evidence of Dukakis' good judgment. On the other hand, cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber and an SDI program limited to research and development make sense. Dukakis supports all three...
When Dukakis bid for Texas by choosing Bentsen, it strengthened the electoral rationale for Bush to target California by choosing its Governor. Deukmejian publicly ruled himself out because his selection would hand the statehouse to the Dems, but Bush aides say Deukmejian would accept if asked. Weaknesses: he is dull as Death Valley, and he (like Dukakis) favored unpopular tax increases to cover his state's big deficit...
Even Randi was watched because of his "reputation for sleight of hand." During one crucial test, the lab suddenly rocked with laughter: Randi was enlivening things with magic tricks. "Only the constant implication that we had something to hide prevented me from stopping this masquerade," said Benveniste...
...learned from television and movies. Bianca says she wants to go to college because if she does not, she will "end up like that lady in a cartoon" who sings because she didn't finish school. But she will not take science, for fear of burning her hand in a lab, "like that woman on The Young and the Restless." She talks about the bad effects of cocaine and reveals that she learned about the subject from a TV movie called Desperate Lives...
...perfume of chocolate pervades the atmosphere. A pot of liquid bittersweet chocolate is ready for dipping, coating and adding to recipes. Just inhaling deeply could add something to your waistline. Eight students, most of them youthful, are busy improving their skills at a variety of arcane techniques, such as hand-dipping candy, mastering the vagaries of white chocolate and constructing elaborate chocolate figures, including rabbits, pyramids and even shoes, for buffet- table centerpieces. All have been drawn to Elmsford by the same thing. Says Liz Viggiano, 32, who dropped out of a graduate physiology program at the University of Florida...