Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't be in the position of renting out the lives of American servicemen for something that isn't in our national interest, and if it is in our national interest, we should be willing to pay for it," said one administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
...question is not whether JohnSasso was wrong, but rather whether he was right, in the broadest sense of that word. The position Dukakis took--and took too long in taking--was that Sasso did what anybody would have done, and that anybody just isn't good enough...
...magazine page, to tell the familiar stories and improvise new ones. So the graceful hands sculpt air to illustrate a point. The smile invites. Even the famous world-weary shrug amounts to conspiratorial flirtation. "You pretend it's true," the gesture says, "and I'll pretend it isn't." It is a marvelous performance. Who else could play Marcello Mastroianni so convincingly...
...company's survival rides on ideas like this? Actually, the point of the lesson isn't the product but the process of organizing a project into a "network diagram," says Instructor Ted Urban. "I've seen diagrams with 2,000 activities that would fill up that whole wall. People say, 'Oh, my God!' " But the diagram becomes a road map. You can use it to figure out that a two-week delay at Step 16 is going to cost $100,000. The alternative is to wing it, which can get expensive -- especially if you count the $287 coffee breaks...
...this isn't necessarily bad, for slow jams are one of the Jam/Lewis team's more recent specialties. Expertly smooth synthesizer work focusing on a pattern of three or four chimelike notes laid on top of heavily seductive slow rhythms, with horns thrown in here and there; it's a recipe they use in almost every song...