Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes to a fitting, and obvious climax at the league championship when, after a losing half, she renegs on her decision not to fight her husband and the team bounds to a final victory over a very evil enemy team...
...line fees of about $225,000 for advice about the risks they face with their international investments. Political upheavals, debt crises, pressures to nationalize foreign holdings -- all can affect millions of dollars in private investments. Kissinger, tight-lipped about the nature of the advice, volunteers, "An obvious case is South Africa. They want to know what do I think is going to happen there? In the Middle East? We give them a political risk assessment." Kissinger's advice to prospective clients is blunt: "If they are looking for hot tips, they are not going to get them...
Their delight in Baby Doc's ouster was obvious. But were they happy enough to want to return to Haiti? In Miami and New York City, which have the largest Haitian enclaves in the U.S., some people claimed their bags were already packed. But most were circumspect. "I want to go back today, but I must wait until I see who is going to run things," said Philippe Georges, 58, a sewing machine mechanic in Miami's garment district. "The boy wasn't the only bad one in Haiti...
From the slums of Calcutta, the Pope journeyed northeast to the scenic hills of Shillong, where 19th century missionaries found ready converts among the territory's tribes. Some 100,000 people attended a Mass and, to the Pontiff's obvious delight, members of the Konyak tribe danced and brandished their daos, the flat-ended machetes that until 1967 were used by the clan to behead enemies...
Perhaps the most obvious rhetoric-reality gap emerges in the problems of sex education and contraception. Outspoken Phyllis Schlafly schlafts the whole idea of educating children about reproductive biology, claiming that such education is nothing but free advertising for abortion clinics. The three major TV networks have refused to show a public service announcement because it uses the word "contraceptives". The same networks regularly program thousands of hours of hardly concealed sex scenes...