Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland. But if she was an eagle aloft, she remained a sparrow on the ground. Lovell, biographer of the British pilot Beryl Markham, can do little to romanticize her taciturn subject. It is only when Earhart climbs into the cockpit that The Sound of Wings truly takes...
...Good Men is at least as good a play as The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which it resembles. The production is adroit, and its subject -- the degree to which the military is properly subordinate to civilian values -- has never ceased to be topical. But it suffers from bad timing. Plays that are in essence debates need each side to be able to make a reasonable case. In this conflict between career military "defenders" and soon-to-be-civilian attorneys over the rights of the accused, the imbalance is not in the play but in the minds of audiences. The flood...
...other business, Councillor Thomas W. Danehy called for a special executive session "to discuss the character and behavior" of Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers. Danehy was advised by the city solicitor, however, that such a session could only be requested after notifying the subject of the inquiry 48 hours in advance...
Dhanda also said that she thought most of the people attending the programs were already interested in the subject of race and racism...
...eight-year, 13,344-subject study, carried out by researchers at the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, is hardly the first to establish a link between moderate exercise and longevity. But it is considered especially significant. For one thing, it includes both men and women, in contrast to earlier, mostly male surveys. For another, it strengthens the evidence that exercise can ward off cancer, a relationship discovered only in the past few years. And, perhaps most important, it is one of the largest studies ever done that relied on an objective measure of fitness, not just participants' descriptions...