Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe you're going to take a vacation. It's going to mean a big increase in real disposable income." Agrees Merrill Lynch Chief Economist Donald Straszheim: "The oil- price decline is like a blood transfusion to a wounded patient. As the victim pulls through, we'll see one pleasant surprise after another...
...perhaps that's a good thing--a 5-4, extra-inning victory can be mighty pleasant in retrospect...
Many of the characters populating the life of Alec Guinness you probably never have heard of; some, like Bernard Shaw or Ernest Hemingway, you probably know too much about already. The strengths of this very pleasant book lie in its private perspective on the lives of the men and women we know only as images in films. It is fascinating to know, for example, that Ralph Richardson was obsessed with being mistaken for John Gielgud, and that he once without warning socked Guinness in the jaw. "Who can one hit," he shouted, "if not one's friends...
...just the players, or some of them, who fail to fulfill the positive scholar-athlete stereotype. The Department of Athletics also may play fast and loose on occasion. Percs--such as better meals, no work "jock jobs," and tutoring--are rumored to help make athletes' college lives more pleasant...
After all, everyone knows that the Harvard man is arrogant and the Radcliffe woman is unattractive. And even if they were pleasant in manners and appearance, they're both too busy for romance, especially with each other...