Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the rookie reporter's standpoint, there was no particular reason to be excited about the Harvard women's basketball team at the start of the 1985-86 season. The two previous years, the Crimson was a combined 11-40, which translated into a pair of last place Ivy League finishes...
...four years at the Washington Post, where she worked in the feature-oriented Style section and then in Woodward's investigative unit. Though her initial response to the Post's overtures was an "absolute no," Amsterdam now sees the job as the ultimate challenge. "Fear is a good reason to take a job," she insists. "My goal is to make this a great metropolitan newspaper...
...justified: based on a survey of 62 hospitals, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that there were 1,781 emergency visits nationwide last year for injuries related to tanning booths. The year before, Teenagers Jennifer Tyree and Aida Sabato suffered excruciating eye pain after visiting a Manhattan tanning parlor. Reason: because they did not wear protective goggles, their corneas were seared by overexposure to the UV sun lamps. Warns their ophthalmologist Barry Chaiken: "Only time will tell if the exposure is going to mean that they'll face a higher risk of cataracts and other long-term consequences...
After hiding for more than two months behind shuttered windows and CLOSED signs, Panama's bankers were ready for a stampede of cash-starved customers when the institutions reopened last week. With good reason: it was the first time since March 3, when the government controlled by General Manuel Antonio Noriega decreed a bank holiday, that depositors at most of the country's 120 banking institutions were allowed to make limited withdrawals. Yet the queues that curled around street corners last Monday were calm and orderly. Grunted one depositor, Roy Stone, as he waited to enter a Chase Manhattan branch...
...first the KGB seemed content to watch from the sidelines as some 100 dissidents gathered last week. But as the group was winding up its second day of political meetings at a dacha outside Moscow, the authorities moved in and detained 23 people, keeping almost half of them overnight. Reason: the dissidents had proclaimed the birth of an independent political party, the Democratic Union, to challenge the Communists...