Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan is really as detached from his policies as these incidents suggest, how do we explain his success as governor of California and his attainment of the highest presidential approval rating since FDR? Reagan has outstanding political instincts. He has prevented potential political disasters such as his visit to Bitburg, his joke and the killing of Marines in Lebanon from materializing because he has an incredible ability to control and manipulate touchy situations...
...researchers suggest a daunting list of causes for such a poor showing. First, Americans tend to see math ability as innate. That, says Stevenson, gives youngsters a tailor-made excuse for not pushing hard, since the results are presumably preordained. Second, while U.S. schools tend to stress the broader creative skills of reading and writing, other countries, particularly in Asia, emphasize math burned in by persistent instruction and exercises...
...family trees were charted indefinitely backward, they would eventually converge on a small group of ancients who were ancestors of us all. Now biologists suggest in a report to Nature that a single female living between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago in Africa was an ancestor of everyone on the earth today. Inevitably -- and to the probable delight of creationists -- many scientists are calling...
...across the country. The bloodshed has made ungovernable many of the townships in which the country's 24 million blacks are forced to live and has given the government of State President P.W. Botha a potent propaganda weapon. Invariably referring to the slaughter as "black-on-black" violence, officials suggest that it proves blacks are too uncivilized to rule one another, much less the whites...
...wrinkles around his eyes, and his weight is down a couple of pounds from the hospital stay. Color a bit bleached. But every vital sign normal, and the crew of doctors unanimous in their belief that he is hale physically. Being President actually prolongs a man's life, statistics suggest. "The doctors said he had the insides of a 50- year-old, and I intend to keep him that way," says Nancy Reagan...