Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan, it was a rare change of heart on a matter of principle, and an even more uncommon public acknowledgment of that about-face. "Some may feel that my decision is at odds with my philosophical viewpoint that state problems should involve state solutions," the President said to a high school audience last week in Oradell, N.J. However, he went on, "in a case like this, where the problem is so clear-cut, then I have no misgivings about a judicious use of federal inducements to encourage the states to get moving...
...rich, sure, rock-solid sense of inadequacy. No writer should be without it. Bombeck's brings her back to the typewriter, twitchy with remorse for the unspeakable sin of not measuring up, after only a few days of vacation. She writhes, and writes, and makes a rare sort of contact. "I swear to you, I don't write fiction," she says. Bill Bombeck and their endlessly libeled children swear she does. No matter; when the jokes splat on the page like strained spinach flung by somebody's centrifugal suburban baby, they are true to life. Bombeck...
Cancer in the liver is most often associated with exposure to hepatitis-B virus, which is now rare in the United States, but carried by an estimated 250-300 million people worldwide. It is most common in the Far East and sub-Saharan Africa...
With U.S.-Soviet relations close to rockbottom, the rare COMECON meeting represented Moscow's urgent summons for present and future solidarity from its allies. The motherland needed friends and comfort...
...Kremlin colleagues. His hair is slate gray but abundant. His shoulders are only slightly stooped, and he walks without a shuffle. His dour, dark-eyed face has been etched over the decades with downturning lines, but it is still capable of all the familiar flashes of emotion: the rare, stray wisp of a smile, the characteristic sag of one side of his thin mouth to denote disapproval, the sudden contortions of carefully thoughtout anger. However he has changed over the years, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko has also remained the same: the enduring personification of the ultimate Soviet diplomat...