Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly, is an alcoholic? The question is a tricky one: symptoms are not always clear cut, and even doctors do not agree on a definition of the disease. The extreme cases are obvious. A person in the grip of alcoholism blacks out from drinking too much, suffers memory loss, and wakes up trembling with craving for another drink. But most cases show fewer dramatic symptoms. Also, the behavior of alcoholics fluctuates wildly. Some drink heavily every day, while others can stop for brief periods, only to go off on binges. This past year the American Psychiatric Association settled on three...
...title of Hugh Whitemore's elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing, an obscure if influential British mathematician. The most obvious reference is to Turing's cracking the Nazi Enigma code, credited by Winston Churchill as a key intelligence feat of World War II. Confronted with an enemy that could change its code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion...
...cutbacks at Eastern Airlines. There is no future for Eastern unless it restructures its labor costs. Eastern has laid out a game plan that makes obvious sense, not one that will win a popularity contest among unionized employees. But it happens to work. When you're losing the kind of money Eastern is, you don't grow. You pull back...
...economy. If the consumer in a recession gets picky, he will get picky about airline prices. As a lower-cost airline, we have an obvious ability to withstand a lower price structure. If you have fewer passengers chasing the same number of seats, prices go down. We could do it and be profitable. ((Traffic)) will go up. The question is who gets what share...
...what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of the thousands on the books, out of the dozens that every non-monastic citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could...