Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson. "We were the only white faces in the whole church," she recalls. "At the end of the service, the deacon stood up and said, 'We have some politicians who would like to say a few words to you.' Everybody looked at us, and we shook our heads. 'You mean you're not politicians? Then praise the Lord!' And the whole church started laughing." The choir and its soloist, Lannie Spann McBride, perform the film's final funeral anthem...
...athletics tend to do better academically than their classmates who are less involved. In addition, statistics show that board scores of entering athletes are on a par with those of their classmates and that, once at Harvard, athletes are consistently within one standard deviation of the college-wide mean for academics...
...innovative people. In Viet Nam I was running the riverboat operation, and two kinds of people showed up. One asked for the tactical doctrine on how to operate those boats. When we said there wasn't any, he froze. That man was useless. Another type would say, "You mean nobody knows how to do this?", and "I know as much as anybody?" And when I said yes, he'd say, "Hot dog!" and go off and do it. That guy was great...
...passengers, the buying binge will mean bigger, quieter and more comfortable planes. Airlines, for their part, will save on operating costs with the new fuel-efficient jets, which feature advanced computerized flight systems. With so many airplanes to build, though, the booming aerospace companies will face some fresh concerns: how to meet their delivery schedules and still ensure that their quality control does not slip...
Ebullience does not mean blindness. Asimov is alarmed by overpopulation, with its insatiable demand for natural resources. He is not sanguine about the medical establishment's inability to find a cure for AIDS: "It may just burn itself out the way the bubonic plague did in the London of 1665. But this tragic disease moves much more slowly. It might take a century to disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack...