Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal body isn't quite so ideal after all. Instead, "it stands not only for beauty and health," he says, "but also for false hopes and prejudices." Moreover, he notes, "that knowledge may be disheartening at first, but it also frees us -- to exercise and eat in ways that match our own needs rather than the dictates of the latest...
...congressional crackdown on defense spending was much in evidence last week. The National Defense Authorization Act for 1989 passed by the House and Senate would increase defense spending only 2.8% next year, to $299.6 billion. That would not even match the expected 4% inflation rate. Another sign of seriousness about cutting the Pentagon budget came when the House passed a measure to expedite the process of closing 20 domestic military bases believed to be obsolete. The moves are expected to save anywhere from $2 billion to $5 billion a year...
...watch and root with ardor because we sense the truth: what happens on the big league diamond is life magnified beyond mortal dimension. Who in his or her daily existence has an experience to equal the champagne-drenched euphoria of a championship team? How can the workaday world match that moment when the last out is recorded and the players embrace in bacchanalian frenzy out near the pitcher's mound, pummeling and tumbling, shouting and shrieking, reveling in the totality of triumph...
...arriving in its vast, ultra-modern airport are guided on what seems like an almost endless journey toward the outside world by a disembodied voice that speaks standard American English -- the Southern woman who recorded it having been instructed to purge her speech of any cornpone connotations. It can match just about any Northern city in the splendor of its high-rises or the poverty of those who are sometimes spoken of as living "in the shadow of the buildings." The white residents of most of its neighborhoods have fled to suburban counties, where they prefer traffic jams to participation...
Hoping at 31 for a ninth Wimbledon singles title, the one that would leave Helen Wills Moody and everyone else behind, Navratilova warmed up for Graf with a 41st victory over Evert in their 78-match marathon. "These two are ranked 10 and 11 now," observed the former U.S. Davis Cupper Gene Scott. "Steffi is 1 through...