Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firmly in the saddle. Then, U.S. officials predict, the Kremlin would probably want to pull out as many of the troops as possible-though some tens of thousands would have to remain-and go on a propaganda offensive trumpeting the "stability" of Afghanistan. "They don't want to stay in there," one policy expert said of the Soviets. "They're putting a lot in to get it over with quickly...
...emotional lives today. These seem not to move to natural rhythms but at the speeds of the media, where the compulsion for at least one new sensation a week hinders the sensible sorting out of the significant from the trivial. Simon's lovers understand that they cannot stay the rush of their feelings: lives are so crowded, things pile up so rapidly that there is a compulsion to lurch after possibilities that might otherwise be explored more thoughtfully...
...flop and hopeless at foot shufflin' and finger snappin', but he tries hard. When he is ready to go out into the big world and his black mother (Mabel King) tells him that he was adopted, he is horrified: "You mean I'm gonna stay this color...
...STAY AS YOU ARE Directed by Alberto Lattuada Screenplay by Alberto Lattuada and Enrico Oldoini...
...show can help close a gap in science education in the early grades. Says CTW Research Director Milton Chen: "In surveys of science achievement, you see a pattern of declining interest in science around junior high. We're trying to intervene earlier to try to encourage kids to stay tuned in to science." Another goal: stimulating interest in scientific careers among minorities, who now make up only 4.4% of scientists and engineers, and among women, who constitute just 9.7% of the total. Host Marc is a young black; Trini, one of his two girl companions, occasionally speaks Spanish...