Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose of the trip wasn't so much for hockey," Harvard Captain Lane MacDonald said. "It was a nice trip and it was tough to play under all those travel conditions...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS by Paul Kennedy. The scholarly best seller offers an exhaustively documented theory of historical relativity: the U.S. faces a tough future not through loss of strength but because its competitors are growing stronger...
...design has turned bland and safe. The best new buildings and products are lively and provocative even as they avoid ideological purity. The compelling modernism of the moment is lush, dreamy and concerned with appropriateness, not big, inhumane and cookie-cutter corporate; successful ersatz-old-fashioned buildings are lately tough and even somber, not merely quaint and pleasant. Hybrids abound, and modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with a relatively low budget. The finest work...
...familiar problems one more time. "The new journalistic challenge," says managing editor Henry Muller, "was to help / find solutions, and that by definition meant international solutions." So we invited a distinguished group of scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents to a TIME conference charged with producing a tough but realistic action program. The conference was organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. His proudest coup was to persuade a team of Soviet experts to participate. The group was led by Fyodor Morgun, Mikhail Gorbachev's hand-picked chairman of the state committee for environmental protection...
...with the faded green bag continues to stalk the Bowery and its tributaries, staying clear of "the tough people, who have gloves anyway," and seeking out "the little old guy who is frightened of people." Sometimes he hands gloves to men who are muttering aimlessly over the rubble of their lives, barely aware of what they are clutching; some quickly trade them in for a pint of cheap wine. "It doesn't make any difference. When you give a gift...