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What accounts for its amazing popularity? Partly it is the elementary but engaging word game (many puzzles are devised personally by Creator Merv Griffin, who also wrote the show's theme music), partly the hypnotic allure of the wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC...
...conventional runway and fly into orbit like a rocket. It could launch satellites, much as the space shuttle has done, or it could simply whisk U.S. passengers from coast to coast in twelve minutes. Such staggering speed would only be possible with a new kind of engine that could function both in the atmosphere and in space...
...involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing to the commonwealth than a few dirty political tricks. These dawning hints of complicity give him an excuse to renounce political expedience and square himself with his former wife (Julie Christie) and his sometime mentor (Gene Hackman), who function here as the voices of liberal conscience...
...what happened in Soc Rel. The department grew "wings," divisions of scholars with similar interests. "Social Relations served a very good purpose, but I felt it fractured in the latter years," says Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. According to Pattullo, Social Relations came to function as four separate departments under a larger framework. Others say that by the 1950s the department was already tenuring scholars for achievement in particular fields, having little regard for a candidate's contributions to "social relations" broadly understood...
...countries have come to share during their long and intimate association. Said Bosworth: "We will be judged--and we will judge ourselves--by the fate of democracy in this country and by the success of your national efforts to strengthen your democratic institutions and to ensure that they function effectively. We have a moral and political stake in a democratic Philippines, which transcends all our other interests here, strategic as well as economic...