Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public relations executive at Ford. "But the old adage is that people in L.A. want buses and mass transit so all these other guys will get off the freeway...
...meeting of the Philological Society in London, the OED has stood as the ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English consulted it, to be sure; but many were reassured by the knowledge that it, an Everest of scholarship, was there...
Soon to trade his beat for London, Banta is sure to keep following the dizzying developments in Eastern Europe. "The pace of change has been extraordinary," says Banta. "Three years ago, Hungarians would laugh bitterly at the notion of free elections. Today they're about to have them." But such extraordinary change has not occurred everywhere. As the kindly Rumanian passport official put it, "I hope we see you again -- if you can come back...
...most people do not like airline food, you should wait until there is a lot of turbulence before you serve the passengers. This is very important, since nauseous passengers do not eat much, and the airline can recycle the unused food. Turbulence is also essential when serving drinks. Make sure to lean over seated passengers when pouring scalding hot tea or coffee...
Think it's unfair? Tell that to "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, who was banned from the game after the 1918 Black Sox Scandal. Or Orlando Cepeda, a sure Hall of Famer--until he went to jail for drug possession...