Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace, made thousands of recommendations on how to slash the U.S. budget deficit. Since he delivered his report to President Reagan in January 1984, Grace has waged a personal crusade against the Government's spendthrift habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows a twelve-year-old prosecutor trying his elders...
...give the Patriots a fighting chance. For three straight weeks, the underdog Pats have played on alien turf, and each time they have found a way to win. Against Miami, New England should have lost. But the team stuck together and stuck...
...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...
...Lown is certainly a victim of this. It was also reflected in the priorities of the 3,000 (or was it 30,000?) journalists gathered at the recent summit in Geneva. Reports filed back home and questions asked at press conferences focused with remarkable consistency on nukes. An alien observer might conclude from IPPNW's work and Geneva that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are just conglomerations of defense firms playing some giant version of the boardgame "Billionaire...
...Federal Government, however, maintains that the Central American aliens are fleeing from economic want rather than persecution. Says Laura Dietrich, a State Department official: "Coming from a country with generalized conditions of poverty and civil unrest is not enough." Last year the U.S. granted asylum to 503 Salvadorans. In the same year agents apprehended 18,920 and deported 3,890, but thousands more remain while they complete the appeals process. By contrast, in the same year 45 Soviets were granted asylum and 43 were refused. Judge Earl Carroll, who is presiding at the Tucson trial, has already announced that...