Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unionization issue was ideal, a chance to help poor workers take on Big Bad Harvard. And, better yet, its not a very time-consuming endeavor. You only have to work on it for an hour or two between classes, while at other times paid staffers work do the dirty work. "It is hard to work on issues like South Africa, which is so far away, when there are things like unionization that are so close to home," one former SASC member quipped...
...ideal leader, on and off the field," Clemens says. "He is great, absolutely great...
...mayor of Charlotte, N.C., Sue Myrick, the only woman attending the seminar, said she thought the program was ideal. "It seems to be all--inclusive. It's so intensive that it's not a lot of wasted time," she said...
...essential, of course. The yellowish globules, layered under the skin and packed around organs, cushion the body against injury, insulate it from cold and supply fuel to meet energy needs. Too much fat, however, increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, among other afflictions. Establishing ideal body-fat percentages is difficult, since height, age, body frame and exercise are all factors. Generally, scientists agree that the normal range for men is 12% to 23% and for women...
...officially ignored or obfuscated -- and nearly all of it haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. But Gorbachev had insisted there should be no "blank pages" in his country's past. Now, in an address marking the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, he had an ideal occasion to demonstrate the glasnost (openness) that has become a watchword of his 31 months in power. What he revealed instead was the limits of glasnost and the cautious path he must tread between foot-dragging conservatives and impatient reformers within the Communist Party leadership...