Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt: "Monetary officials speak in guarded code words, and commercial bankers in doubletalk." Like many other economic analysts, Malkin suspected for some time that a serious global debt problem was at hand but felt cautious about his suspicions. Not until a banker in Basel dropped his defenses over a beer and unambiguously warned him of the frailty of the Eurodollar market did Malkin decide to push ahead on the story...
...advertisement asks in mock irritation, WHAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed his machine so it can recite an entire wedding...
...Maurer. A Governor's task force in Texas has recommended that the 1983 state legislature raise the drinking age from 19 to 21. Said Department of Public Safety Director Jim Adams: "It's almost a Texas heritage to be able to drive down the highway with a beer in your hand. But we have an intolerable death toll...
...change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers not to drink and drive: "These kids are drinking, and some are going to continue to drink even if you raise the legal age to 40." College students reiterate the same argument they used effectively in the early '70s. Protests Curt Pawlisch, a leader...
...kind that special interests try to sneak through at the end of a hectic session. As Rhode Island Republican John Chafee graphically described the process: "You can almost hear the hogs moving up to the trough-slurp, slurp, slurp." Among them were bills that would weaken regulation of beer distributors, doctors and lawyers, and the National Football League. None passed...