Word: timedealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Botha's decision to go to the country for endorsement of his leadership, 19 months before the law requires him to do so, appeared to be carefully calculated. It was timed to capitalize on a still booming economy and was aimed at strengthening his hand against the recalcitrant right...
Bowen's Anglo-Irish background, her childhood on a rural estate in County Cork, served her well when she went to London to write in the 1920s. Although sophistication came easily to her, along with Bloomsbury friends, she did not forget that cultivated society was a veneer over a...
PETE RITTENBERG had laid first claim to the 1981 Harvard Iron Man award by nabbing the U.S. Track and Field Federation pentathlon championship on January 25. Rittenberg was in second place after the first three events in the five-part contest but finished strong with firsts in the high jump...
That approval came two days before the U.S. presidential election (which was also, by another sour irony, the first anniversary of the hostages' seizure). The Majlis is too arrogant, chauvinistic and factional a body to have timed its crucial decision to help Carter, a man hysterically despised by Muslim...
But it is Achtman and McPhee who allow us to see through the fourth wall into their characters, and ultimately Simon's view of 1970's city life. Both have precise, well-timed deliveries that bring to life lines like, "Some night I'm gonna put that air conditioner on...