Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Stairmaster at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (Q-RAC) looks harmless enough--something like one of those horizontal escalators at the airport, only much smaller, and with the handles from the handicapped bathroom thrown...
...sitting Governors cannot. As chief executives, they directly bear the blame for policies that affect the voters. That wrath accounts for the decisions by Connecticut's William O'Neill and Massachusetts' Michael Dukakis not to seek another term after imposing tax increases. Special-interest money also plays a smaller role in state races -- which means that voters can more easily make themselves heard...
...become America's pre-eminent broadcast organization to his long, long goodbye and final, reluctant embracing of new owner Laurence Tisch. But in stark contrast to the encomiums written and uttered after his death last month, Smith's biography cuts a broadcast titan down to 21-in. size. Maybe smaller...
...might not be so easy. Washington had to twist arms in Tokyo and Bonn the first time around, and would encounter strong resistance if it asked for more. Even some of the smaller allies are not chipping in eagerly. Washington asked South Korea, itself once a victim of aggression from the north, to contribute $450 million. Seoul stalled until it was warned that the U.S. Congress would remember that the next time it considered funding for U.S. troops based in South Korea. The Koreans then came up with some money -- half of what Washington had requested...
...egalitarian ideal, a society with more opportunities for those who wish to practice medicine, with cheaper health care for all and with a smaller gap between the incomes of doctors and the incomes of most other people (including nurses) would surely be more desirable than a society like the one we have now, except that 12% of the doctors are black and half are women...