Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago bills itself as "the city that works," and anyone familiar with the way it works soon realizes that the secret to smooth functioning is regular nourishment-preferably of the green, folding variety. Examples of this approach-questionable and just plain illegal-regularly come to public attention. But last week even some jaded Chicagoans were shaking their heads over the current run of jinks, high as well as low, being aired...
...tribulations in this academic community go far beyond publish or perish. There is the oh-so-smooth college president who is scheming to become a political bigwig. There is the cuckolded football coach whose wanton wife is exchanging signals with the star quarterback. There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse. Meanwhile, no one seems to be paying much attention to books, lectures, homework or grades. That is because Alden University exists only in a mythical grove called Soapland and in the mind of a woman who creates worlds that flicker...
After Reagan was elected President, Clark was sounded out about senior posts in the new Administration. When Reagan pressed him to take the No. 2 job at the State Department to help smooth rocky relations between Haig and the White House staff, Clark came to Washington. His confirmation hearing was a debacle. As background in foreign affairs he listed his work as a young lawyer for a Salzburg ski-binding company, his wife's Czech origins and the education of his children in Germany. At one point, when Democratic Senator John Glenn asked for his views on official recognition...
...beyond these gleanings the authors patiently give substance and shape to the world's most protean political and cultural organism. The standardization of urban skylines, the mailing of the suburbs and monotoning of news barely begin to smooth out the stubborn differences that define each region of the country. Pennsylvanian Peirce and North Dakotan Hagstrom count eight discrete sections: Mid-Atlantic, New England, Great Lakes, Border South, Deep South, Great Plains, Mountain, and Pacific, which includes Alaska, an area so large that it embraces four time zones...
...contestants cannot sacrifice quality to slash prices, because Japanese consumers are famous for their fussiness. When shopping for refrigerators, they feel the surface of the units to make sure that screwheads do not protrude and that the corners are round and smooth. Picky customers also slam the doors to find out how noisy they will be. Auto buyers check the upholstery for the proper stitching, open the hood to look at the welds and examine the paint job inside the trunk. Any company that does not meet the prevailing quality standards is soon in trouble...