Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original $1 billion price tag will have tripled by the end of the project. What to do with the tunnel when it is finally completed? One suggestion is to use it for oil storage. Another is to grow mushrooms in it. After all, the moisture and darkness would be ideal...
...image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera's trickiest passages, joyfully but inaudibly singing along, he has become Priestley's ideal personified. And why not? James Levine, 39, is doing what he was born...
...Israel had to remain on a moral pedestal, almost above reproach, in a constant search for perfection. It was an impossible dream, but one that has lasted until today. Now though, Israel with its political scandals, militarism and petty bickering, is showing signs of being no more of an ideal nation than any other democracy. Realistically, such an evolution was to be expected...
...some ways, the debate between free traders and protectionists is illusory, an argument about a world that does not exist. Free trade is merely a theoretical ideal. All trading nations protect themselves, more or less. West Germany is the nation that is most open, closely followed by the U.S. France is more protectionist than the U.S. Almost everyone except the Japanese regards the Japanese as the most protectionist, given to such elaborate nontariff barriers as the superzealous customs check and a cohesive, even collusive, partnership between business and government...
...gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets. So were old-line tube makers such as General Electric, RCA, Sylvania and Raytheon. Much of their production went to the Pentagon, which found transistors ideal for a special computing task: the guidance of missiles...