Word: fitting
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Unless the Supreme Court or Congress sees fit to provide stronger protections, anyone using a cordless phone could wind up broadcasting his personal conversations to the world. Consider the consequences next time you call your spouse, your business partner, your stockbroker -- or your lawyer...
...Panama operation -- more than a score dead and 200 wounded at week's end -- were heartbreaking but nevertheless "worth it," said Bush. He closed with a note of defiant self-confidence: "I have an obligation as President to conduct the foreign policy of this country the way I see fit . . . if the American people don't like it, I expect they'll get somebody else to take my job, but I'm going to keep doing...
...over time, fewer and fewer Russians fit the stereotype of illiterate peasants on whose bovine passivity Czar or commissar could rely. Soviets were increasingly well educated and well informed, in spite of the propaganda poured over them. And while they reached political maturity, their leadership sank into senility. The people cringed when they heard the doddering Leonid Brezhnev try to form his words and when they learned that his hands were so shaky he had to eat with a spoon at a state dinner. They told scornful jokes: state radio, cynics said, dared not play any work by Tchaikovsky...