Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans like cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...
...house prices would come down by perhaps 5% to 10%. That would please buyers and help to contain the inflation rate but hurt owners with large savings tied up in homes they are trying to sell. Even at lower prices, fewer buyers may be tempted and fewer homes built. Kent Colton, executive vice president of the National Association of Home Builders, figures that housing starts might drop 300,000 units below last year's level of 1.8 million, a matter of concern to the economy because housing construction spurs sales of wood, glass, furniture, appliances and many other goods. Scott...
...John W. Black, who will turn 61 next week, has until recently been director of the Therapeutic Research at the Wellcome Research laboratories in Kent England. He headed the Department of Pharmacology at University College. London, from 1973 to 1977, and has taught physiology and pharmacology at numerous universities...
Cohen was relentless in his research. He traveled to Darwin's library in Kent, England to examine the copy of Das Kapital that Karl Marx presented to the naturalist. Revolutions in Science is the culmination of a lifetime of serious, inspired scholarship--and the results show...
...some states, police routinely set up "sobriety checkpoints," stopping cars to check for drunk drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with a lot of fish and very few fishermen...