Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year they did all they could to reach the Eastern Conference finals. This year, a year older, a year more tired, they will be lucky to get the home court advantage for the first round of the playoffs...
...peak vacation is a fable of compromises and calculations. On the one hand, there are bargains everywhere: Pan Am has a $398 round trip to London; Alitalia offers five nights in Rome for $99. On average, hotel and air-travel prices can be as much as 30% lower off-season. The trade-off, of course, comes in weather that ranges from unpredictable to appalling. While some resort towns remain mild well into the fall, northern cities turn gray and damp, and a visit requires a victory of mind over weather. The great galleries and cathedrals are often hushed and wonderfully...
...safer alternative for Shamir might be to lure Labor into a broad coalition. But the party would be a junior partner, and the opening round of talks proved humiliating for its leader, Shimon Peres. "It's a joke," said Labor Party member Yossi Beilin. "They need us as a fig leaf, and their demands are impossible...
...effect, the White House has become a small but complete city. Gardener Irvin Williams reports that a new lawn weathered the hot spell and is flourishing. Wood ducks are in the trees, mallards on the fountain pond, 40 or so other species of birds round about. Squirrels, lured by Reagan's generous dispensation of acorns, are too numerous to count...
...first thing a party does after it loses an election is round up the usual suspects. The Democrats' postmortem of the Dukakis debacle has produced a fairly standard list of fall guys. It starts with...