Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Cambridge's at-large proportional representation system, the only sure things seem to be that another outspoken liberal will replace Sullivan and that an East Cambridge native--of uncertain political orientation--will replace Vellucci...
...however, the questions Carlson had worked out with White House correspondent Michael Duffy drew surprisingly candid answers from the new First Lady. Carlson predicts that Mrs. Bush will be neither a demi-Cabinet member like Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like Nancy Reagan. "Mrs. Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need to prove anything," says Carlson. "She is as comfortable discussing the merits of one campaign ad over another as she is pouring...
...tame the Kremlin? He put Moscow's bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over a microwave warming of relations with the Soviet Union. No one can be sure how genuine or durable the thaw will be, but it has helped Reagan enormously. With the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in force and Moscow in a conciliatory mood, he can ignore the criticism that his conduct of national-security affairs has been generally incoherent...
...January Man is modestly, ingratiatingly, a movie of the latter sort. To be sure, it begins with a serial killer claiming a victim, and it ends with the guilty party being taken into custody. But the deductive process that normally leads to this conventionally ordained conclusion is perfunctory and even somewhat implausible. What interests writer John Patrick Shanley, who won an Academy Award last year for Moonstruck, is the infinite and usually inexplicable capacity of ordinary people to turn flaky without warning or change of expression. The prime example here is Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), a former New York City...
Cashiers and ushers were waiting outside at the theater last night, because they said they weren't sure if they would have to return to work. They said they did not know anything about the incident. They added that they evacuated the theater as fast as they could...