Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family never regretted homeschooling, Micki Colfax says. "I think my sons are creative and bright and highly motivated. I think they are highly motivated because they always saw immediate results and got a sense of accomplishment from everything they...
...Curcio says her thesis provides an in-depth look at American culture in the 1950s, a culture she says is "kind of like what you saw in `Leave It To Beaver...
...savor reality's entrancing parade but never feel comfortable joining it himself. The recurring rashes on his skin kept him apart, drove his attention inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows why: "An overvaluation of the normal went with my ailment, a certain idealization of everyone who was not, as I felt myself to be, a monster...
...dank atmosphere that nurtured this tangle of alleged corruption began after the Socialists' re-election in 1985. Papandreou was eager to tighten his grip on the country. He found a perfect match in the ambitious young publisher and banker Koskotas, who saw in PASOK a means to build an empire...
Collier W. St. Clair, a vice president for the Equitable Financial Services Co., was a district sales manager in North Carolina in the early 1970s. One of his responsibilities was hiring, but many white applicants balked when they saw that their boss would be black. "A lot of them didn't come back for a second interview," he says. "I finally started asking people if they would have any problem working with...