Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader is not offered a compelling reason to believe that, in a region that Carter writes has been "characterized by tremendous suffering and conflict among its peoples," peace is likely to come any time soon. Indeed, both the long-run historical perspective and the outline of current events suggest that peace is hardly around the corner...
...They are fantasies of revenge, like Missing in Action, in which Chuck Norris returns to Indochina to rescue old buddies still held there by evil Vietnamese who look like the wily, despicable Japanese in World War II films. These changes reflect a very literal and significant transaction. They suggest that in the American imagination, the Viet Nam veteran, erstwhile psychotic, cripple and loser, has been given back his manhood...
...review committee, set up last summer by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to analyze and suggest potentially broads scrapping changes for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), is expected to report its findings at today's Faculty Council meeting...
...wanted to leave in good health to set an example for others to follow before their powers became impaired." But informing a failing Justice when to leave has always been a delicate matter. At the turn of the century, when one member of the court was designated to suggest resignation to the often befuddled octogenarian Stephen Field, the younger man eased into the subject by reminding him of a similar visit Field had once had to make to a senior Justice. "Yes!" cut in the cantankerous Field. "And a dirtier day's work I never did in my life...
...accident of nature, which, once fixed a few billion years ago, would never change. Explains Preer: "It's hard to imagine how one code could evolve into another without jeopardizing the protein in the cell." Whatever the mechanism, the changes must have occurred very early on; some biologists suggest that the alterations may have been a ploy by one-celled creatures to resist viruses, which destroy cells by invading them and taking over their cellular machinery...