Word: suggest
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...fewer words but equal devastation, Epstein draws a bead on Norman Mailer and plugs him as "a serious writer except when he is thinking, and the trouble is that over his long career he has been thinking a very great deal." Perhaps to quote such provocative thrashings is to suggest an intemperate, flailing harangue, but every round-house blow is prepared-with deft, critical jabs and well-documented proof of delinquency...
...revealed documents that, if authentic, back Washington's charges of strong leftist Salvadoran guerrilla ties to the Soviet bloc and Nicaragua. The papers indicate that several guerrillas have attended military-training courses in the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm rather than reveal." After Reagan's troublesome week, it was at least a small victory...
...newspaper, speculated that the incident was triggered by "inadequate education for youth about civil behavior and the law." Municipal officials called for more ideological training in schools. Official anger may succeed in reining in China's rowdy soccer fans for a while. But Western diplomats, and even some Chinese, suggest that less, not more discipline is needed. They see the riot as a cathartic release of emotions that have had little opportunity for expression in a society where hard work, obedience and humility are demanded. "Some people would find any excuse to march, to act, to mob," says one Peking...
Each year an estimated 200,000 American women, roughly 15% to 20% of those having difficulty becoming pregnant, take fertility drugs, and some experts suggest that they are now being overused. "There are no magic fertility pills," says Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic. "Some physicians may be using them indiscriminately in response to patient demands...
...Soviet press has been railing against alcohol abuse and condemning the country's passion for vodka, or, as Soviets often call it, the green serpent, for the creature it can evoke. Excessive drinking is described as the leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow: "It's a tough problem, and I think (the Soviets...