Word: transients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week in more than half of the cases. The drug, to be sure, has side effects, including increased maternal and fetal heart rate, a slight drop in blood pressure, palpitations, tremors and nervousness. Recalls one Chicago mother, Susie Kellett: "It was like superspeed." Still, the effects appear to be transient; Kellett went on to give birth to healthy quadruplets...
...potential disaster. The memory lingers, although the main evidence of the accident is hidden. People driving past the plant, which occupies a low island just downstream from Middletown, cannot see the trailers and temporary structures that have turned the site into something resembling a gypsy camp. Nor can the transient get much idea of the activity under way on the island as a work force that occasionally numbers several hundred proceeds with the painstaking task of clearing away the mess left behind by the accident...
...tough language about American intentions in the Persian Gulf was deliberate, not to define a battleground but to send a message that this is not going to be a transient attitude. "The U.S. has a broad strategic group of forces," says Carter. Thus he carefully chose and used two words in last week's news conference-"tactics" and "terrain." The U.S., he said, would not allow the Soviets to choose either in any confrontation. Translated, that means that an American response to new aggression might come any place in the world where Soviet interests are handicapped by narrow waterways...
Purists of the Olympics argue a bit romantically that the Games must be above politics, that regimes and secular squabbles come and go, that political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended. During the twelve centuries of the ancient Games, warring states and tribes suspended their homicidal business every four years and flocked to the sweet valley beyond Mount Kromion to compete for crowns of wild olive. Now, some athletes complain, a reverse logic applies; the Games get suspended at the first...
Neither burning out nor fading away, Young is pausing to add an embellishing brush stroke to the picture of his musical career thus far. He seems confident that he can carry on, writing the songs he believes in, ignoring the births and deaths of transient musical fads...