Word: historicizing
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As it did eventually for F.D.R., the inevitability of death and retirement on the high court offers a historic opportunity for the winner of the 1984 presidential election. He will almost surely fill not one but several vacancies. Assuming that the appointees are relatively young, the next President could set...
Nonetheless, the historic new Sino-British agreement is virtually certain to be passed by Parliament in early December, and Thatcher will fly to Peking to complete the formalities, probably at year's end. It will then remain only for the Chinese to begin the arduous task of drafting and...
Now nearly complete, deregulation has turned air travel into a free-for-all or less than it now costs to fly to San Francisco, we'll fly you there and back. And there again." So boasted the ads of People Express last week, in the Newark (N.J.)-based airline...
"My home town is so dull," goes the old gag, "that for excitement everybody goes down to McDonald's to watch the numbers on the sign change." McDonald's in recent years has been selling hamburgers so fast (140 per sec.) that many golden-arched signs state simply...
The team's historic misfortunes have been reversed by an unromantic Philadelphia tough-6 ft. 5 in. tall-named Dallas Green, who managed the Phillies to a world championship in 1980 and became general manager of the Cubs the next year. Only three incumbent players have survived his first...