Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...other actresses are competent enough to fill stereotypes without seeming too shallow: Kate, who ambitiously pursues a career despite the loneliness it forces on her; Samantha, a pragmatist who decides she is not very talented and therefore should sacrifice herself to a husband who is; Holly, a kind person who lacks the drive to succeed; Muffett, who says she is not promiscuous, but hates going to bed alone; Leilah, who realizes she is not brilliant, but only "highly competent," and so moves to Iraq to make competent additions to the field of sociology; and Susie Friend, an over-enthusiastic...
...still a political person," he asserts. "I played at the White House a year ago and I got a standing ovation. I invited the President to jump onstage to see what a standing ovation looked like...
...midnight December 1, 1980. Cheech & Chong won't answer the questions until next spring, after they've finished the aforementioned Columbia Project, but our Quizmaster needs the time to learn to read. Don't forget to include your name and address with the question; only one question per person, please...
...Stanford doctors, who do two dozen transplants a year, half the world total, credit several developments. New methods of handling organs have increased the availability of donor hearts; so has increasing acceptance of the concept of "brain death," which declares a person dead when the brain is not functioning even though the heart beats on. Also, recipients are chosen more carefully. The ideal candidate is under age 50, healthy aside from heart disease, optimistic, stable and has a supportive family...
...Handel, editor of Musical Times and critic for the Times of London. Sadie appears to have a firm grip on two vital facts: that culturally as well as commercially this is an age of internationalism, and that the rapid growth of music can no longer be interpreted by one person. Grove 6 acknowledges this with a systems approach that employs computers, a team of advisers and editors and an army of 2,300 contributors (20% of them British; 35% American). It is not a revision but a new construction job, as if an old walled city had been leveled...