Word: use
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Harvard was, to use one of Cleary's favorite expressions, a second slow and a half-penny short all game. With 18:59 left in the second period--and MSU holding a 2-0 lead--MSU defenseman Brad Hamilton fell on the puck in the crease, giving the Crimson a penalty shot...
...probe into what appears to be an ominous trend. FAA inspectors will single out the 20% of 173 U.S. carriers with the worst safety problems, then make in-depth field inspections of those airlines. One bit of suspicious evidence has already turned up: apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it discovered traces of the drug in the blood and urine of Pilot Steve Silver, whose Continental Express commuter plane crashed in January near Durango, Colo., killing nine...
...million low-income citizens are no longer required to file at all. Moreover, the creation of a standard deduction and the raising of thresholds for medical expenses and other write-offs means that about 25% of the estimated 40 million taxpayers who itemize will be better off if they use the short forms instead. But for the remaining 30 million Americans who have any significant deductions, the tax-reform law is a brier patch of ambiguities, shifting rules and vanishing preferences. The tax code contains hundreds of changes this year, for which the IRS has published 48 new tax forms...
...disposed of too quickly was Bruce Babbitt, who brought refreshing candor and intellectual rigor to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Yet he too was burdened with a major shortcoming. Until the very end of his campaign, he failed to master a primary presidential skill -- the effective use of television as a tool of leadership...
Reagan has added his two cents to the philosophical debate over mind and body. Why use minds to figure out workable solutions to international problems when you can send a bunch of bodies to do the talking--and the philosophizing--for you? Forget the Arias Peace Plan. Let's win one for the Gipper...