Word: singularizing
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Dole's mania for a sensible federal budget and a genuine attack on the huge deficits has cast him up against bankers, farmers, the elderly and the President of the U.S. This is a singular way to go for the White House. "I figure that you listen to all the arguments and then it is a leader's job to make up his mind what seems best and fight for it," Dole says. That has not always been the method employed by national politicians, particularly those from the Senate fearful of offending powerful interests. Dole is going to ride...
...Sport Oklahoma survives Penn State, Miami and Bowl Day as college football celebrates a tidy and singular champ...
...virtues of this singular insulation are acknowledged by even the government's critics: while superpower tensions have torn Indochina asunder, civil and incivil wars have haunted even such tiny neighbors as Sri Lanka, and booming Asian powers like Singapore and Japan have had to bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped...
...talking. The A.P.F.A. soon became the N.F.L., and the Decatur franchise, originally a sales tool for a starch manufacturer named Staley, shifted to Chicago in the custody of the amazing Halas. It might be an exaggeration to say that the entire fabric of sport was sewn in this singular man, but it is a fact that Halas shared one field with Jim Thorpe and yielded another to Babe Ruth. He was a most valuable player in the 1919 Rose Bowl and for a moment a rightfielder with the New York Yankees, but indelibly he was Papa Bear...
...business has been brutal this year. Sometimes the old Cowboy Cliff Harris, 37, misses "a defined field where flags are thrown." Then he smiles and remembers the singular instant of Super Bowl X, when, for mocking Roy Gerela's missed field goal, he was body-slammed by Linebacker Jack Lambert. "In Dallas, logical thoughts were ingrained," Harris says, "emotional reactions discouraged. The funny thing is, you know how to play the best when you can no longer play at all. Even watching games now, the emotions of football flow through me, but I'm still in my mind a thinking...