Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus summarized, The Safety Net sounds like Dallas auf Deutsch. But Böll has the technical skills to lighten weighty social themes. His best narrrative trick is to keep the public Stürm und Drang at bay and focus on the private lives laid bare by pervasive surveillance. Suspense takes a back seat. Somewhere, hazily defined terrorists are poised to punish Tolm for his real and imagined sins of omission. Will the assault be by cake bomb, a flight of mechanical birds stuffed with explosives or a mysterious boy with a "bomb in his head"? Who will attempt...
...small businessman is acting like he's in an airplane threatening to crash," says Mike McKevitt, director of the National Federation of Independent Business, which has 502,000 members. "He's throwing stuff out the windows to lighten up-trimming back inventories, prolonging payments, laying off workers-anything to keep going a while longer...
Potter Stewart, retired Supreme Court Justice, on increasing the court's membership to lighten the work load: "I don't think that would solve the problem. Life on the court would have been a lot simpler for me if I had no colleagues...
...teammates last year for his dedication to the books, the social studies major hopes to one day go to Law or Business School--preferably, and fittingly, across the River. And, always thinking ahead, Keane intends to remain at Harvard next summer to take some courses that will ultimately lighten his load in the senior year when he will be wrestling with a thesis and his own self-styled efforts at Olympic training...
Three new shows to lighten the cold-weather blues...