Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer should have known better, of course. He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg. His excuse was that after seven years abroad he had moved from Paris to Los Angeles. And as everyone knows, the distance between the Rue de la Paix and the Pacific Coast Highway is measured not in flying hours but in light-years. Catapulted from the European fixation with the past into the Californian intoxication with the future, the returning expatriate felt he had been gone for half a century, and sometimes that he had been born yesterday...
...think so. If I go too far, number one, the networks will let me have it, and you better bet your bottom dollar they can. Number two -- more critical -- my supporters will back off. They'll no longer support me. And they shouldn't, and I hope they won't. But I don't think they're ever going to have to make that decision...
...1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans may be an exciting spectacle, it can waste huge amounts of time and money that might better be used to improve products at home and compete with firms abroad...
...grumpy sources also manage to portray the Vatican as "a palace of gossipy eunuchs" and "a sea of brilliant bitchery." Last week a Vatican official derided Cornwell's findings as "lamentably gossipy." But disturbing as the author's conclusions may be, not everyone was displeased. "It's much better to appear a little ridiculous," said Vittoria Marigonda, secretary to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, "than to be seen as a bunch of murderers...
Teenagers are committing more assaults, rapes and murders. And the aggression cuts across racial and class lines. Experts blame everything from physiological abnormalities to movies, rock music and TV cartoons glorifying brutality. Curbing the violence depends not on tougher punishment but on better treatment programs and restoring values that stress human worth...