Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly noted that after a highly successful 13-year career as party leader in one of the Soviet Union's most fiercely traditional republics, Shevardnadze has unquestioned political skills. It is also clear that he has close relations with Gorbachev. His foreign policy experience, however, is negligible. The most obvious implication drawn by most analysts was that Gorbachev intends to be his own Foreign Minister...
...SENSE, the new proposals, adopted by the NCAA, mild as they are, signal a new day for college athletics. Yet, in another sense, these reforms are a sad commentary on a tarnished system for being to obvious and so late in coming. They were so obvious to President Bok that he didn't even bother going, sending Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 to act as "yes-men" for all the proposed changes...
...native" Americans who felt alienated, while aliens or the children of aliens upheld the native values. The immigrant's double vision results in a special, somewhat skewed perspective on America that can mislead but that can also find revelation in the things that to native Americans are obvious. Psychiatrist Robert Coles speaks of those "who straddle worlds and make of that very experience a new world...
Once negotiations were under way, officials from Washington to Jerusalem to Beirut were forced into a symbolic dance under the TV lights. The substance of a solution was not all that problematic. It was obvious from the start that it would have to involve the release of both the hostages and Israel's Lebanese prisoners. All parties seemed willing to accept that. Yet enormous efforts had to be made to avoid any public appearance of a swap...
...foreign innovations are introduced by immigrants, however, the most obvious exception being Japanese food. Like French cuisine, the Japanese style was first made popular by gastronomic trendsetters -- chefs in fashionable restaurants, fancy-food stores and the food press. French and American chefs, experimenting with nouvelle cuisine, became fascinated by the aesthetics of Japanese food. Japanese restaurateurs and sushi masters came $ to the U.S. in response to a demand that had already been created...