Word: sures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sternglass's warning was exaggerated. But no one-not even radiation experts-can say for sure that he is totally wrong. Despite science's long experience with radiation and bitter knowledge of its risks, like the cancers inflicted on early radium workers, including Madame Curie, disturbingly little is known about how much radiation, or what length of exposure, is safe for humans...
...This is the cautiously balanced view of many U.S. experts on the Middle East as they analyze the likely effects of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty. Says a State Department senior aide: "We're moving into a roomful of new realities in the Middle East, but nobody can be sure what will happen to people's perceptions as we go through the door...
...choices. On Sunday Rogers conducts "athletic review." "It does no good to take 48 split ends and no linebackers," he explains. The director of athletics invariably appears and nervously paces the hallway outside the committee's meeting room. Sunday afternoon is set aside for "legacy review" to make sure the alumni have not been slighted. Monday morning is "geographic review," to make sure the regional mix is right. Then a waiting list of some 500 candidates must be drawn up; for most, it is Brown's polite way of saying that they came close but could...
...fact, that is not likely to happen very often. Most people instinctively watch Ayckbourn. Something is going on behind that face of vanilla pudding, but they are not quite sure what. If they had seen any of his 22 plays, however, they would know: Ayckbourn is watching them, his eyes alert for what he calls those "quick social embarrassments" that comprise the human comedy...
...ANGER WAS ambiguous. I wasn't sure which I was more upset about, that she had ruined my evening utterly by sickening me or that she had revealed in me a vulnerability that I didn't realize still existed. In her stories she had written about blacks with no overtly racist edge. Now I must look at her stories again, and more carefully. I can only hope that the glib pontificator of that evening, the framer of vacuous sentences, is at odds with the humbler personality of the writer at home...