Word: surer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surer method, says Gerard A. DelTergo, is to be on good enough terms with the clerks so that you can leave an article of clothing there for a week or two--so that by then, the item is marked down to the optimal price...
...electromagnets, then stripping off the charge just before the beams are shot out the end of an orbiting device. Why bother with them then? Primarily because the beams, which work by frying the innards of a missile or warhead with radiation, in principle are more lethal and yield a surer kill than lasers...
...national confidence in Government sank until it reached only a little more than 20% in the last year of the Carter Administration. Since Reagan took office, the figure has been rising steadily. It now stands at ! between 40% and 45%, not an overwhelming endorsement of the Government, but surer. In his latest survey, Yankelovich found that as of December, 73% of Americans believed that "things in the country are going very or fairly well." When Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in January 1981, the figure stood...
...explorations of Los Angeles, a top-down kind of town, must begin with the same action: cranking an automobile. "How can one pursue happiness by any swifter or surer means," the Los Angeles Times asked in 1926, "than by the use of the automobile?" This year the paper advised in an Olympics guidebook that "the car's the thing, and if you have one or have rented one, be sure to become familiar with Los Angeles streets and freeways. (This is the key to 'happy' motoring in and around the large basin...
...this year the Fourth was different. The fireworks seemed more brilliant, the crowds denser and more celebratory. Americans' sense of pride in their nation seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst...