Word: syncing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot engage an audience. But his problems run deeper than a poor speaking voice and stiff manner. It is not surprising that most people would rather hear Reagan's good tidings than Mondale's jeremiads. Mondale's empathy with the poor is noble but out of sync with the popular mood...
Ismat Ullah's expression of polite amiability is oddly out of sync with the fury of his words. In the 20 years he has spent as a Pakistani immigrant in Britain, slurs and rejections have engendered an abiding bitterness. But the mask remains in place. "I keep it all inside," he explains. "I listen to the jokes about Indians and Pakistanis, and I laugh so as not to show my weakness. But I resent it. As a colored person here, you have to be different from what you are. You have to keep a cosmetic appearance...
...engineer and a teacher; Hamilton too was adopted, also by teachers.) Skating pairs are a unique entity in sports, competing neither individually nor as members of a large team. Their event is all a matter of synchrony. Like other ice-skating pairs, Peter, 24, and Kitty, 22, are in sync off the ice as well. If they were not ingenuous, the Carrutherses would be treacly, awful. "When we're skating well," says he, "there's this feeling that is magic, a strange force we have together." Kitty: "It's almost supernatural." Peter: "We love skating ..." Kitty: "Together...
France is the furthest out of sync with other industrial nations. When Mitterrand's Socialist government came to power in 1981, it made the mistake of stimulating the French economy at a time when other nations were fighting inflation. As a result, the value of the franc began to fall, plunging 34% against the dollar during the past two years. That drop made France's imports more costly and thus worsened its inflation, now running at 9%. The French have gone heavily into debt trying to defend the franc in the currency markets, and last week they...
...most fun," he says, "because everyone has to do everything. Players say they're happy with a win, but no one is really happy if it hasn't been a good style of a game. One guy can really have it going but be out of sync with the team and ruin...