Word: learned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chandler, basketball and classes complemented each other, and both offered her the chance to meet and learn from different people. When she talks about the team, when she talks about her schoolwork, when she talks about her future, Chandler talks about people...
...country like China with a long history of absolute monarchy, political power was deliberately structured to make authority irreplaceable. People unaccustomed to democracy could easily feel perplexed at the vacuum of power and unable to fill in with their own force. But this is something they must learn if democracy is what they really want...
That's pretty much the movie. Peters is cute and irresistible, Eastwood is cute and irresistible, and then the two of them, like ballet dancers, are cute together. Peters' character has a baby, who is cute too, but the kid still has a lot to learn. Everyone plays off stereotypes of stereotypes, so Peters does a send-up of Eastwood's middle-aged machismo, and Eastwood, eyelids fluttering prettily in that fine Mount Rushmore face, takes off Peters' little-girl-lost act. Eastwood wins...
...five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...
...years Suzman, a former university lecturer in economic history, was the only liberal opposition member of the house, making her the Progressive Party's spokeswoman. She slashed at purveyors of apartheid, once advising government ministers that they could learn something about their country if they would attend a funeral in a black township, "heavily disguised, of course, as human beings." But she opposed foreign economic sanctions against South Africa, arguing that they hurt blacks and drive whites into a siege mentality...