Word: treads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with success and fame, he ambles in where Broadway and Hollywood angels fear to tread. It is fun to watch him keep his balance...
...reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level), taking fat fees for propounding his doctrine of hope and reward. Carter, who always was a better missionary than a President, now has the stature and the means to tread the globe's troubled pathways relentlessly urging reform and righteousness...
Recently America, admirably, has tried to tread more softly in its dealing with the Third World. Diplomatic efforts to resolve the factors motivating terrorism--a Palestinian homeland and more congenial U.S.-Iranian ties--should be especially encouraged...
...written about so thoroughly by so many authors, from Izaak Walton to Ernest Hemingway and Tom McGuane. You search for what fathers or uncles in an earlier generation used to pass down over dinner tables or around campfires: secrets of the water, hints about how to read streams and tread them lightly, how to intuit the mysterious nature of the wild trout...
...speak in terms of eliminating genetic defects is to tread on slippery scientific and ethical ground. As any biologist will testify, genetic variety is the spice of life, a necessary ingredient to the survival of a species. Genes that are detrimental under certain conditions may turn out to have hidden benefits. Sickle-cell anemia, for example, is a debilitating blood disease suffered by people of African descent who have two copies of an abnormal gene. A person who has only one copy of the gene, however, will not be stricken with anemia and will in fact have an unusual resistance...