Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declaration that the 1987 agreement must be honored. The demonstrations and hostile climate "cannot outweigh the accord," he asserted. Pope John Paul II has so far declined to intervene openly in a local Polish church matter, but behind Decourtray's unequivocating statement may be glimpsed a papal hand...
...America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are taking a tough stand on what has become an emotional and high-stakes labor issue: medical benefits. In an era of rising health-care costs, companies are trying to shift more of the burden to employees. Workers, on the other hand, look upon their medical benefits as hard-won rights that have become essential to maintaining their standard of living. Declared picket signs last week: CUTTING OUR HEALTH BENEFITS IS SICK...
...right may look like he's only feeding a giraffe, but he's actually lunching with a source. Acacia branches in hand, Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth befriended Kito for this week's Living story on the renaissance of the American zoo. Over the course of eight weeks Willwerth petted a walrus in Tacoma, walked ankle deep in freezing snow in the company of several hundred penguins in San Diego and held (gingerly) a tarantula in Cincinnati...
Joel Brinkley's debut spy novel, The Circus Master's Mission, combines all of these things--one person's speculation, hindsight and journalistic footwork--to come up with a fascinating look at just how out of hand our government could...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" pharses--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...