Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't expecting them to be that strong, but after the Princeton upset it was a good ego-booster to prepare us for Yale," number-four Lisa Harrison said after the match...
...book might be dismissed as a redundant exercise in convoluting logic, if it weren't for the market it seems to have found Dress for Success sold more than three million copies, and Molloy says he has served, incredibly, as consultant to 380 of the Fortune 500. If this book equally successful, this may be the decade of the social ubermensch, the lies of which will make Bill Buckley look like a country hick...
...these safety problems weren't enough, evidence is mounting that nuclear power--once hailed as "too cheap to meter"--is no longer economically viable. Indeed, since 1975, utilities have ordered only 13 new reactors and have cancelled orders for 50, mainly because of the rising cost of building the plants. Charles Komanoff, a New York energy economist, argues that the capital investment required to build a reactor is almost twice that required to build a coal plant. Soaring costs come partly from the need for greater safety in the wake of Three Mile Island. But more important is the declining...
...suppose if you wanted to pin down any single recent trend in American films, it would have to be romanticism, or more bluntly, escapism. Ragtime and Reds recall the times of horse-drawn fire engines and "high society', when reform and idealism weren't laughable pursuits, and you could fall in love without analyzing it first. The social messages of these movies have been dwarfed by their length, intricate period settings, and romances. Yet the only alternatives contain no message at all: norror, comedy, and adventure all start from the proposition "what if..."/ and ask that you leave the real...
...Instead of learning from his experiences, or gaining social awareness, Danclo remains basically the dimwit we met a long, long two hours ago, pursuing whatever brunette happen to be with him (we never see how he meets them) and retaining true love--for no earthly for the psycho nympho weren't those days crazy? Wild kids social upheaval...