Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to take charge of the President's effort at Harvard. At first she was uncertain, but when Rotenberg arrived at Carter headquarters in Boston, she ran into another co-worker, this one dating from a later internship in the White House Appointments Office. One afternoon and three instant promotions later, Lisa Rotenberg found herself running the Commonwealth's student campaign...
Some of the ratings are a bit obvious. Since the average daily population of a cemetery, not to mention the total daily population and the peak instant population, are low, the department rated it the most desirable non-profit use for a neighborhood...
Their meeting changes the tone of Fallaci's writing--for several chapters she loses her cynical tone and conveys the terror and attraction this man raises in her. "It would be disastrous to accept your love and love you: I knew that with certainty, in an instant," she says after she first meets Alekos. But loving him was inevitable "because it overpowered the instinct of survival and the ambiguous snare of happiness...
...Iranian Phantom fighter-bombers struck industrial targets and oil installations deep inside Iraq. American-trained Iranian pilots seemed to be particularly adept at evading the Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missiles (SAMS). One successful U.S.-taught tactic: diving straight toward the oncoming missile, then veering off at the last instant...
...Nobel Prizes announced every autumn are the supreme status symbol, the most coveted and prestigious honors awarded anywhere in science and literature. The laureates, judged under the terms of Swedish Industrialist Alfred Nobel's will to "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind," receive medals, money and the instant acclaim of peers and public alike. Ranked with the likes of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, W.B. Yeats and Albert Schweitzer, they are deluged with honorary degrees, speaking invitations and book contracts...