Word: rare
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Washington's noisy debate over Jimmy Carter's debate book refuses to fade away. President Reagan last week made a rare appearance at a meeting of his senior aides and ordered them all to cooperate fully with Justice Department and congressional investigations into how his top 1980 campaign advisers had acquired Carter's briefing papers. He told reporters that any adviser found guilty of wrongdoing in the affair could be fired. And as FBI agents began quizzing former Reagan and Carter campaign advisers, the mystery of whether the Reagan staff had systematically sought political information from...
Harvard Square--for all its acknowledged imperfections, which are manifold--is one of those rare congested urban areas which somehow seem to work at a human scale. Though not wholly rational, the underlying system--not clearly understood by anybody involved--should not be dealt with capriciously.--The 1976 Comprehensive Policy Plan for Harvard Square, compiled by the Harvard Square Task Force...
...drive 20 miles to do aerobic and exercise-machine workouts "at a place where they don't know me." The Opels fish together, go to the opera together and watch birds together. They also work together to protect their privacy. On the rare occasion when a reporter calls him at home, Carole Opel answers politely and promises to bring her husband to the phone. But then she sets down the receiver without ever telling him. Callers get the message...
...Gottlieb and an EIS agent based in Los Angeles reported the grim news in CDC's weekly publication. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien of New York University noted that several of his homosexual patients had the same weakened immune systems and were suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare cancer of the skin usually seen only in older men. Later that summer Dr. Harold Jaffe of CDC, while attending a conference in California, was told of an additional case of a young homosexual suffering from Kaposi...
That cavalier action, in a world where reputations (and Olympic berths) hang on millimeters and hundredths of seconds, was perfectly in character. For by winning the 200, record or not, Lewis became the first American in nearly a century to gather three titles at a national outdoor championship.* The rare triple is roughly equivalent to a major league pitcher's chalking up a 1.50 ERA, winning 20 games and batting .350. Other sprinters have been superlative long jumpers, but Lewis is in a class by himself (he owns the indoor mark of 28 ft. 1 in.). At Indianapolis...