Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This introduction, brash enough to cause riots, was tempered by the smooth melodies of Elvis Costello's "Veronica," performed by Daniel Brotman and Gordon Woodward...
...growing debate centers mainly on the pricey potions, lotions, creams and gels that promise to thwart the wrinkly ravages of aging and smooth the pockets of fat, dubbed cellulite by cosmetologists, that dimple many women's hips and thighs. Thanks to the aging of the baby boomers, U.S. sales of skin- care products have surged more than 50% since 1985, to $3.7 billion a year. That makes them the fastest-growing segment of the toiletries and cosmetics industry, which rakes in almost $24 billion annually...
...been smooth sailing ever since. "It gives me energy, it helps to eat, it helps to sleep, it helps me to function and it's like oil for my brain," says Talshir, 39, a resident of Bourne, Mass. "Am I going to take all the bullshit chemicals the doctors prescriber? I know that this stuff really works...
...gesture, which Baker hailed as "very substantial," is a critical first step toward terminating a relationship that has bedeviled the U.S. since 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev first sent Soviet advisers to Cuba to shore up the communist government of Fidel Castro. If fully carried out, it will also help smooth the way for broader U.S. aid, which Washington has tied to an exodus of the Soviet contingent. Coupled with a U.S.-Soviet agreement announced late last week to halt arms shipments to the warring factions in Afghanistan, the Cuban pullout signaled Moscow's desire to disengage from costly commitments abroad...
Curious, I slunk into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...