Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POLLS keep reporters off the streets too. A poll may come with endless hedges about margins of error and standards of accuracy. Nevertheless, it is an irresistibly instant cross-section of the electorate. "The Globe reporters were just salivating for the results of the polls." Stewart says. The magic percentages offer a sense of "momentum" in mid-race. Polls may be superficial; momentum may be an artificial constraint on the democratic process, which after all is not the race but the final tally. But it is something easy and cohesive to report...
...rites was the unveiling at last of the radical keel that the Australians had kept carefully shrouded from view since their arrival in Newport last spring. Lexcen's design did not, as many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated, the wings kept...
Anthony Alvarado, 41, was appointed chancellor of New York City schools last spring after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's District Four, an area where rubble spills out of abandoned buildings and youths loiter in empty lots. When Alvarado, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, was assigned to District Four in 1973, it ranked dead last among the city's 32 districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading...
Already, King's particular magic had enslaved his audience, which roared "Yes, yes!" to almost everything he said. But then, King came to the end of his prepared text-and he swept right on in an exhibition of impromptu oratory that was catching, dramatic, inspirational...
...Summer Magic...