Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reformers must work with ingredients that have grown stale. Every East European nation faces to some extent a similar litany of consumer complaints: food and fuel shortages, inadequate salaries that are declining in purchasing power, massive budget deficits. It presumes a lot to think that East Europeans will sit quietly through the price hikes, plant closings, job layoffs and other austerity measures ahead. "It's a race against time," says Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute for International Relations. "Can the democratization of politics beat the Third-Worldization of their economies...
Waldeck was raised in Philadelphia in a family that liked to have music playing. Nicknamed "Tinker," he started with the drums ("I was pounding out rhythms before I could sit up") and learned guitar at 14. His father was a handyman and, in Waldeck's view, a true environmentalist. A handyman is the ultimate recycler, he says, who knows how to fix things rather than throw them away...
FLIP on the tube at 6 p.m. and you can catch re-runs of "The Beverly Hillbillies," a sit-com about a family of "poor mountaineers" who strike it rich and move to the West Coast. In their Beverly Hills mansion, Granny prepares 'possum for dinner while daughter Ellie Mae plays with her new brassiere, which she thinks is a "double-barreled slingshot...
...other search and concordance functions make the machine far more valuable. Want to find every place in the Bible where "taxes" appears? Just punch in the word and sit back. The computer displays all the books where the exact word is found, and a simple added command then brings each text to the screen. Taxes turn up but once in the King James, in Daniel 11: 20. A handy extension of this feature can also search for all variant forms, such as taxed or taxation (there are eight...
...beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into a new era of negotiations. His action signaled his potential willingness to go even further -- to free Nelson Mandela, the symbolic leader of black nationalism, and to sit down for talks with the A.N.C., which for three decades has been dedicated to toppling the government by "armed struggle...