Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the racers seem to appreciate the smooth aestheticism of surface. The finest crews exude not exertion but fluidity. All move as one. Sculls catch the water as one. Pull through. Slide. Back. Again. Again. And then gone, under the next bridge...
...that fewer of the lake's trout will be eaten by them. Wildlife biologists scoff at such speculation, and city water officials insist that there is nothing in the water to harm humans. But until the Great White Pelican Mystery is solved, worry and rumor, unlike the birds, seem certain to thrive...
...chiller to everything from program trading to superstition about Friday the 13th, there was a deeper message: confidence in the stock market will remain shaky as long as the U.S. economy rests on a mountain of debt that neither politicians in Washington nor business leaders on Wall Street seem willing to confront...
...demands of East Germany's reformers seem mild when compared with the changes unleashed by opposition forces in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Baltic states. The unfocused New Forum has called for its own legalization, dialogue with authorities and basic civil rights. Only now is it beginning to identify other possible issues: ecological and economic problems, industrial and scientific development. Though the New Forum's ranks are filled with a wide variety of socialists, ranging from doctrinaire Marxists to Western-style Social Democrats, they share the goal of a liberalized East Germany, not a capitalist one. "We are not enemies...
...nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive...