Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surely does--as a rhetorical cover for attacking the program which protects them. "If debate is ever opened on rent control, the forces against it are so strong that it will emerge irrevocably weakened," one tenant activist says. Compromise, they insist, is impossible, and they view those who suggest it as greater enemies of rent control than those who oppose the program all together. In a contest between those who support rent control, and those who reject it absolutely, tenants have won. Calls for compromise, for mediation of differences, introduce a new variable and reduce the polarization of city politics...
...Jazzercise instructor in rural Hopewell, N.J., cheers: "Pretend your boyfriend is watching! Strut your stuff!" Up to 50 women in leotards perform a fast dance routine to the tape-recorded rock. Their movements variously suggest college cheerleaders or amateur night with a Junior League chorus line...
...patterns and medical history. Current computations try to measure risk in relation to environment, stress and general behavior, though statisticians and experts do not always agree on how to weigh the components. A high salary may not be as detrimental to longevity-because of competitive stress-as many quizzes suggest. On the other hand, marriage or living together, usually assumed to increase one's chances of living longer, may actually increase stress, especially for notably embattled partners. National average life spans: 70.5 for white males, 65.3 for all other males; 78.1 for white females, 74 for all other females...
There is little evidence to suggest that the Black bourgeoisie can itself eradicate the problems of the Black poor, or that it could force the white establishment to commit itself to do so. The problem of the Black poor are beginning to take on pathological dimensions while white Americans seem content with the progress made by the Black middle classes and quite unconcerned about the persistence of intolerable conditions for the Black underclass. Nevertheless it is of the utmost importance for the members of the Black bourgeoisie to both formulate new strateg is aimed at helping the Black lower classes...
Other cheap shots include the incorporation of a love interest simply for the sake of filming a pretty woman and a kiss or two; and a deliberately vague and utterly pointless sequence involving an American runner whose pursed lips and pink-rimmed eyeglasses blatantly suggest homosexuality, whose furtive movements imply an unidentified danger, and whose existence in the film never is justified even remotely...