Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean, if you gotta hit it, you might as well hit it far, right...
...customer at Politics & Prose, a busy bookstore in Chevy Chase, Md., is mightily perplexed. There is this book, she tells the manager, something about the impending economic disaster, written by a Chinese. At most chain bookstores, the personnel might be equally baffled. But the staffer at Politics & Prose thinks for a moment, and then, from among the shop's 20,000 titles, quickly produces a copy of The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra -- not a Chinese, to be sure, but the right book nonetheless. Sold...
There is no doubt that hidden faults generate earthquakes. What remains controversial is how large such quakes might be. For the residents of Los Angeles, this is no academic argument. A quake under the center of the city would do far more damage than a tremor of the same size on the San Andreas Fault. Until more is known about the destructive potential of hidden faults, the people living over them will have to remain constantly alert...
...crusade has encountered resistance and stirred resentment. Emil Salim, Indonesia's Minister of Environment, asks how Americans can berate tropical nations for deforestation when U.S. trade barriers discourage development of small industries that might provide an alternative source of exports...
...White House might empower one body -- most logically the President's Council on Environmental Quality -- to coordinate environmental policy and to apply tough standards throughout the Government. Partly because it has no such mechanism, the Bush Administration's record has often seemed to reflect the short-term interests of the business community rather than presidential promises to provide international leadership. For example, some African | nations were outraged last spring when the U.S. seemed to be dragging its feet on a convention limiting the dumping of toxic wastes on the shores of developing countries...