Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clinks of pseudofacts...
...dynamics of 1988 promise drastic differences from the past four elections. For the first time since 1968, no incumbent is running. For the first time in memory -- since 1952, at least -- the race in both parties is completely open. Neither party boasts a dominant potential leader with a solid lead at this stage...
...Jarvis. The families, who initiated the talks in August, are expected to receive at least $750,000 each, paid out over several years. In exchange, they have waived their rights to future claims against NASA and its personnel and contractors, including Morton Thiokol, the company that built Challenger's solid-fuel rocket boosters. Last year a Government commission concluded that a failure in one of the boosters caused the orbiter to explode...
...govern in the post-Reagan era?" By next January the 1988 presidential campaigns will be in full swing in both parties, and any new initiatives will have to be put on hold until after the election. Both Reagan and the Democrats in Congress need to get off to a solid start in the next few months. They have yet to give any real proof that they will, or even...
...mark on Soviet domestic affairs. In the spring he presided over the 27th Communist Party Congress, which endorsed his plans for "acceleration and restructuring" of the bureaucracy-bound economy. More important, the Congress swept out nearly half of the Central Committee's 307 members and gave Gorbachev a solid majority on the twelve-man Politburo. The top echelons of both the state and party apparatus are now staffed by people who share Gorbachev's activist policies...