Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More than 10,000 stores across the country, including such mammoth chains as 7-Eleven and Rite Aid, have removed Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves, many of them acting after receiving a letter from the Meese commission suggesting that they might be cited for distributing pornography...
...makes all too clear. The government has also embarked on a military buildup, based on its insistence that the country is now on a virtual war footing with the U.S. The rationale for a buildup was strengthened last month when the U.S. House of Representatives appropriated $100 million in aid for the anti-Sandinista contras. The extent of the military escalation is not clear. U.S. intelligence sources report that Sandinista troops have begun to mass across the border from the Honduran bases where 10,000 to 15,000 contras are encamped. Military exercises now appear to center on the Soviet...
...Take Manhattan is the latest of Judith Krantz's steamy best-selling novels to be made into a TV mini-series. This one, scheduled for CBS next season, stars Valerie Bertinelli as Maxi Amberville, heiress to a troubled publishing empire. When things look bad, sexy Maxi turns for aid to a worldly real estate developer named Donald Trump, played by Donald Trump. The megamogul had a small, key speaking part in a scene that was filmed last week in -- where else? -- his own Trump Tower. Sighed Bertinelli: "He's so handsome." Trump, an old friend of Krantz...
...people" (48% of the women do so, but just 27% of the men). More surprisingly, 45% believe that such materials either do not "change what people are like" or actually have positive effects on them. A plurality (47%) agree that sexually explicit materials "can be healthy as a marital aid" (44% consider this not true, while 9% are not sure). Similarly, 44% concur that pornography can "provide a useful outlet for people who are sexually frustrated" (41% disagree and 15% are uncertain). But such apparent tolerance fades when respondents are asked about specific adverse effects...
Distaste for Marcos aside, however, the U.S. has yet to deliver as much aid as a disappointed Aquino government had initially hoped would be forthcoming. ( The money is sorely needed. In the four months since the new President came to office, the economy has not revived as expected, and some economists predict the country will be lucky to register a 1% growth this year. When Aquino announced her first official trip to the U.S. this September, she specifically said she was coming "to appeal to the private sector...