Word: reasonable
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...homes? "I am an idealist, a Neoplatonist, I suppose," says Giamatti. "I grew up believing in values, and also believing we'll often fall short of realizing them. That training probably led me to baseball. The best hitters fail about 70% of the time. But that's no reason for them, or for any of us, to give...
Senior White House aides say that Reagan's backing of Bush never interferes with official duties; all campaign trips are funded by the Republican Party. The main reason things mesh so smoothly is the eight-year friendship between White House Chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein and Bush's campaign chairman, James Baker. Said an official: "It's a policy of daily contact and no surprises...
...economists were murmuring their doubts even as they welcomed the improvement. From January through July, the trade gap was running at an annual average of $137 billion, down from $170.3 billion last year. By historical standards the deficit remains enormous, and further progress may become increasingly difficult. A prime reason is that America's factories, which went through a long period of downsizing for efficiency's sake, no longer produce the diversity or volume of products needed to meet the heavy demands of a healthy U.S. economy...
...Stanford scientists announced their findings, which involved transplanting human fetal tissue into the mice, just as a special advisory committee of the National Institutes of Health was meeting in Bethesda, Md., to consider the scientific and ethical issues surrounding the use of human fetal tissue in experimental research. The reason: to develop recommendations that may influence the Reagan Administration's proposed ban on such federally funded research...
...sake of a glimpse into the Seoul Games. But in the Olympic metropolis itself, some spectators seem to be missing. The evidence: as the Games began, more than a third of the 4 million tickets to Olympic events remained unsold, and hotel occupancy was running 20% below maximum. One reason for the surfeit of tickets is a lack of excitement among Koreans for the myriad preliminaries in some sports (soccer, for example) as well as for some entire events (fencing and the modern pentathlon...