Word: hards
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Time travel is the thinking person's UFO, an improbability that nevertheless resonates with mysterious and sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is to invent a scientific instrument actually able to journey up and down the old continuum...
East Germany's gentle revolution turned a little nasty last week. The euphoria that had accompanied the crumbling of the Berlin Wall was followed by a wave of bitterness against the hard-line Communist leadership, under the now ousted Erich Honecker, that had stifled East German lives for two generations. Some of the anger also sprang from the realization, following the opening of borders to West Germany, that the East German economy was in worse shape than the citizenry had realized...
...minded one, in coming face to face with the complexities of capitalism. Within a matter of days, the East German currency -- officially at parity with the deutsche mark -- fell to one-twentieth of its denominated value. One result is that foreigners as well as East Germans with access to hard currencies can buy up low-cost East German marks to purchase goods in East Germany that are subsidized at artificially low prices...
...director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House about his philosophy on abortion. So did William Danforth, whom Sullivan wanted to head the NIH. Sullivan says that while there are other reasons the NIH director's job has been hard to fill, including questions about salary and the Institutes' structure, the White House's phone grilling of Danforth "made a bad situation almost impossible...
Puerto Rico was equally hard hit, particularly on the islands of Culebra and Vieques. And yet, despite $1.3 billion in damage, "you can't even tell there was a hurricane here," beams tourist Emma Meadows of Richwood, W. Va. Shops and restaurants are open, highways are clear, and only 400 of the island's 8,500 rooms are still out of service. The conference rooms and lobby of the 570-room Condado Plaza have new windows, carpeting, light fixtures and furniture. Tree surgeons at the El San Juan are nursing the trademark poolside banyan tree back to life; the hotel...