Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grave but somewhat intangible problems that are our main threat these days. Our enemies have no faces any more. Budget and trade deficits, atmospheric pollution, or AIDS, are all soluble, but they are complex and they grow upon us almost invisibly. Even our main human antagonists can no longer be named or placed. They are terrorists, whose actions strike us without warning...
...when Al Vellucci's speeches no longer echo in Sullivan Chamber, the city will still reflect the mayor's more serious achievements: Harvard's voluntary payments to compensate the city for its tax-exempt property; city government attention to the hazardous side of Cambridge's many chemical and biotechnology companies; and above all, Vellucci's contributions to the rent control ordinance and his steadfast support for that...
Expect Harvard to hold onto its number-one spot a little longer than the Saints--the Crimson's perfect record won't be challenged until January 31, when Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to play Yale...
Later that month the poker-faced monarch humbly presented himself before a moved and astonished General Douglas MacArthur to accept full responsibility for all his country's martial transgressions. In 1946 Hirohito renounced the "false conception that the Emperor is divine." Commoners were no longer forbidden to look at his face. The state confiscated most of his $250 million fortune...
Treatment for hyperactivity includes psychological counseling, special diets that restrict artificial flavorings and preservatives and, most typically, medication with such amphetamines as Ritalin and Dexedrine. For unexplained reasons, these drugs, which usually act as stimulants, dampen impulsive behavior in hyperactive youngsters and enable them to concentrate longer. Up to 750,000 American children now take drugs to control ADHD; that figure is expected to reach 1 million by the early 1990s...