Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backing for the MX conditional upon, among other things, a moderation of the Administration's arms-control line. Said Gore: "The odds are that we'll continue our support." Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, however, warned that support for the MX in Congress is still "eggshell thin." Cohen predicted that in coming weeks the House would appropriate $4.5 billion for building 100 of the controversial missiles. But unless the Reagan strategy for START produces some results by the fall, Cohen said, the MX could face a Waterloo...
Constructed primarily of several thin layers of polyethylene, foil and paper, the containers can keep milk and other liquids fresh for several months without refrigeration. Reason: the airtight packaging seals in its sterilized contents. That has been a crucial marketing aid in countries where transportation and refrigeration are limited...
President Bok's statements make it crystal clear that when anyone is protected too much from the realities of life their skin thin their voice becomes shrill, and their roots wither, President Bok should retire as Harvard President and go to work for a year as a dishwasher or a cab driver, or some other occupation where you come into contact with the rest of humanity. Malcolm W. Berkowitz...
Since its publication last September, The One Minute Manager (Morrow; 111 pages; $15) has sold more than half a million copies. This week it is No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list. The thin volume by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson sets forth the three secrets that they claim can transform executives into models of efficiency and their employees into grinning self-starters. The formulas for success: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands...
...feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda roles call for is the sort of fond nonchalance and glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music...