Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falklands suggest anything, it is that people do not improve. Only weapons improve...
Barbican means fortification or defense. Remnants of Roman walls exist in the City of London, where the Barbican Center, a $280 million arts-cum-business complex, has been erected. Slabs and columns of pebbled concrete suggest a fortress built in modern medieval style. Splashed with bright reds and oranges on the inside to soften the austerity of the stone, the Barbican, which officially opened in March, is a labyrinth in which crowds still wander like students during freshman week, seeking the proper doors and directions. The center contains Barbican Hall, home of the London Symphony Orchestra, three cinemas...
...universality. It was a quagmire and a catharsis. It was a mystery story with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed watching a political serial...
...senior diplomat in Washington quickly dismissed the study as "garbage." Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We reject the charge that the U.S. was party to any fraud. Nor did any of those countless observers on the site of the elections suggest there was fraud." Romberg cited as a "key error" the claim that it took voters 2½ to three minutes each to cast their ballots. A more likely estimate, he said, ranged between 30 seconds and one minute...
...page report drew harsh local criticism but considerable attention in Washington, as it endorsed higher education principally because it makes students more productive members of society. That philosophy led Bok to suggest that, if necessary, the federal government could target aid only to those students-deemed most likely to finish college...