Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prepare for the role, Crowe perfected his American accent, put on 50 lbs. and dyed his hair seven times; then, when he still didn't look old enough, he shaved his head for a wig. Getting inside Wigand's head was more difficult. The two men spent less than two days together in South Carolina, golfing and talking about Wigand's new passion--teaching kids about the addictive ways of tobacco. "He makes it very hard for you to like him. He just doesn't care that much," says Crowe, who feels no need to win friends either. "The thing...
SAFER SCHOOLS AND STREETS Fifty-two percent of American teenagers say a mass killing like the one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., could happen at their school, but only 9% say the biggest problem facing them is violence, down from 22% in 1994, according to a New York Times/CBS News study released last week. Thirty-one percent say the main concern facing teenagers is drugs, and 21% say it is peer pressure. The study indicates that perceptions of teen violence are finally conforming to the drop in such crimes in recent years...
Gore: He didn't propose to repeal it, did he? It tells me that upon closer examination, he belatedly came to the conclusion that most every other American has come to, that welfare reform is working...
Sources--Good News: Circulation (10/99), Cancer Research (10/99). Bad News: Radiology (11/99), American College of Gastroenterology meeting
...widely syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show and his commentator sidekick are very tough guys. Yet the victory they scored last week by persuading CompUSA Inc., the largest U.S. computer retailer, to dramatically expand its advertising in black-owned media really belongs to the show's 7 million, mostly African-American, listeners. They showed how powerful consumers can be in the fight for racial respect...