Word: beckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...requires $10 billion in cuts to student aid. We've already declared this move one of the most ridiculous fiscal decisions in history, since it slashes into one of the most productive economic inputs--human capital. Despite an entire book written on the subject by Nobel laureate Gary Becker and dozens of other economists' faith in education as an instrument of growth, the Republicans have not exempted student aid programs from the budget...
...certainly given me some idea of what to do," said Michael Becker, a first-year student at Amherst College...
...Wimbledon showing favoritism toward top seed Andre Agassi? Or is BORIS BECKER being weird? "It cannot just be a coincidence that it is always Agassi at 2 p.m. on Centre Court," said Becker, who played Centre Court only once this year (and lost). "I think Nike has something to do with it." Wimbledon officials denied the charges...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
Elaine May's Hotline is brief too, but with all its abusive, foul-mouthed yelling it feels long. Linda Lavin portrays a despairing prostitute who phones a suicide-prevention center, where she reaches an overconfident staff member (played, again deftly, by Becker). May places considerable demands on her actors. For one thing, she asks the drama to drag, literally: after swallowing handfuls of pills, Lavin crawls around her apartment, moaning wisecracks. For another, May has contrived a tale that, in a compressed space, moves from squalor to redemption. That the ending works as well as it does suggests that there...