Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While concern over computer security has garnered headlines in recent . weeks, veteran users tend to take the matter in stride. "There is no such thing as privacy on a computer," says Thomas Mandel, an analyst at SRI and a regular on several Silicon Valley computer networks. "The view here is that if you don't want something read, don't put it on the system...
...Governor Michael Dukakis was a long-distance runner before it was cool, finishing the Boston Marathon as a high school senior in 1951. His political career had its own Heartbreak Hill, a devastating primary defeat when he first sought re-election as Governor in 1978. But Dukakis hit his stride with a comeback victory in 1982, and since then has compiled a record of achievement from welfare reform to tax reduction that has earned him a laurel wreath as one of the best Governors in the country. Last week Dukakis embarked on the most grueling endurance race of them...
Ronald Reagan walked into the East Room last week with just the slightest hitch in his stride. The healing from his prostate surgery was almost complete. He stood as straight as ever. Beneath a huge banner, QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE, he gave the 200 assembled businesspeople a talk that was fully ripened Reagan, expertly read from two TelePrompTers...
...easy to fall in love not only with the shapes and colors of the animals but with their motions, their curving and infinitely varied gaits. The zebra moves with a strong, short-muscled stride. It is a sleek, erotic beast with vigorous bearing. The zebra's self-possession is a likable trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that...
...Consul-General took his tunnel escape in stride, according to Boyer. "He was upset to a certain degree when he was trapped in the junior common room. After that he was composed and took it with good humor," Boyer says...