Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cool while writing about homeless children. He tries to keep cool while reporting that there are some 500,000 of them in this wealthy land, a number slightly greater than the population of Atlanta, Denver or St. Louis. He tries to keep cool while reporting that federal support for low-income housing dropped from $28 billion to $9 billion between 1981 and 1986 and that legal evictions in New York City during one recent year totaled nearly half a million. He tries to keep cool while reporting that although New York owns more than 100,000 units of empty low...
...Some of Pat Robertson's organizers are employing a sly gambit to help their man in the Iowa expectations game. Supporters have been told to tell pollsters they might not attend a caucus. Since nearly all Iowa surveys , are discarding "unlikely attenders," Robertson will end up with an artificially low figure in the polls. Thus his finish on caucus night is more likely to produce a p.r. boost by being better than the polls indicated...
Hardly. From midmorning until he departs for dinner around 7 p.m., Hawking follows a routine that would tax the most able-bodied. When he rolled into the department's common room one morning last month, his students were sprawled in lounge chairs around low tables, talking shop. Maneuvering to one of the tables, Hawking clicked his control switch, evoking tiny beeps from his computer and selecting words from lists displayed on his screen. These words, assembled in sequence at the bottom of the screen, finally issued from the voice synthesizer: "Good morning. Can I have coffee?" Then, for the benefit...
...low- calorie, cholesterol- free, natural fat substitute is unveiled, heralding a new era of phony foods -- and guilt- free gluttony...
...this seems to have been accomplished on a shoestring. Farrar, Straus is well known for skimpy salaries. It has occupied the same dingy office space in downtown Manhattan -- far out of the midtown orbit of most of the giant firms -- for more than 20 years. Wolfe politely describes the low-rent decor as a "nice saggy-book look." The waiting area contains a desk and a single metal chair. But then no one waits very long. The thing authors like best about FS&G is that they get to meet the people who work there. Says Brodsky: "Other publishers could...