Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked at us as he ran by, and we got a pretty good look at him. We wondered what was going on," Zehner said...
Gore's strategy of combining distinctiveness and plausibility is working. James Johnson, who ran Walter Mondale's 1984 race and who so far this year is on the sidelines, says, "Gore has passed a threshold of being a credible contender." Some prominent Republicans agree. Says Bill Brock: "While following Al Sr.'s liberalism on a lot of issues, Al Jr. is able to present himself as a mainstream Democrat. He'd be a good, tough candidate in the general election." The leaderships of the Hart campaigns in New Hampshire, Illinois, Florida and Washington State have come over to the Gore...
...problem with their model was that it ignored such key factors as winds, oceans and seasons. When NCAR's Stephen Schneider and Starley Thompson ran the numbers through their agency's three-dimensional computer model, they found that the winter would be more like a "nuclear autumn." Schneider says the less dramatic conclusion does not change the fact that "nuclear autumn is not going to be a nice picnic out there on the rocks watching the leaves change color." Despite the limitations and omissions of climate models, he argues, scientists cannot afford to ignore their predictions. They are, he concedes...
...that glasnost allows us to be open about these things, I must tell you that space travel is not the great adventure it's supposed to be. Lift-off on Sept. 29 was excruciating. My pulse raced to 200 beats a minute, and I ran a temperature. Incredibly, my partner Dryoma seems to have slept through the launch...
McInerney's was the first fresh literary voice to attract national attention since John Irving finally arrived with The World According to Garp in 1978. McInerney made it faster, with less talent, by being in the right place at the right time. He also had a personal life that ran parallel to his fiction. Bright Lights caused a small stir by caricaturing a magazine that resembled the author's former employer, The New Yorker. The novel's more capitalizing feature was that its hero and his pals were regulars at Odeon and other lower- Manhattan spots that were trendy...