Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the two squads meet in Ithaca, Cornell students just don't miss the game. On Sunday, Harvard students stayed home to study...
...state has reached an all-time high. According to Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the surge of ideas reached new levels this year because "this is the first time since 1968 that we knew we would definitely have a new President." (Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity himself, Hess revised and reissued his own 1976 transition book, Organizing the Presidency...
Tactical explanations don't go far. After all, the biggest tactical error of this campaign, Quayle, was made by the other guy. And tactical explanations miss the bigger picture. The Democratic Party is not the only left-of-center party to find itself increasingly shut out of national power. Earlier this month Israel's Labor Party lost its third election out of the past four. Its decline appears irreversible. The same is true for Britain's Labor Party, defeated for the third time in a row last year...
...attempting to chronicle the sordid end of Anita's life, Carey is restricted by the impassive voice he has assumed. In her last few years, Anita devoted herself to Gladys and her young charge, Miss Moore. But when Anita was ill, Gladys was 70 years old and possibly had a drinking problem. Carey's description of the battle over Loos' will and her friends scandalized reaction to her relationship with Gladys and Miss Moore, who are Black, is blank, uninflected. The sadness and tragedy of Anita's loneliness are left unexamined...
...real suitable for you and who is going to be on your level in terms of intelligence and your life goals has got to be 1 in 1,000." Pamela Lloyd, a 30-year-old M.B.A. at a Chicago corporate real estate services firm, agrees. "It's hit or miss. All the men I met couldn't accept intelligence in a woman or that she might be making more money than they were." In desperation she went to Personal Profiles. Her first six dates had "no chemistry," but then she met railroad engineer William Lloyd, 40. Both are Roman Catholics...