Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah, whenever someone called, they'd fade out in a minute and we'd have to say `Hurry up! Quick, tell us where you are!'" adds Bell. "Obviously, we needed a new phone. So someone subscribed to Time Magazine and got a free phone. It works much better...
...lower. It can't get any better for the customer," said Bennett Bidwell, head of Chrysler's motor division. Last week the automaker began offering two-year car loans carrying the lowest rate possible: 0%. That attention-getting number was part of Chrysler's response to incentives launched a few days earlier by Ford and General Motors...
...energy. If that happens, the wreck of the Exxon Valdez will not be an unmitigated disaster. It would be unrealistic to halt Alaska's oil business and unfair to demand that the state's people spend none of their wealth. But exploration and production can be carefully limited, and better environmental safeguards can be put in place. In the end, the battle for Alaska's future may be decided in the other 49 states. If Americans can abandon wasteful habits, Alaska will be under much less pressure to squander its precious wilderness...
...might be better if the U.S. had a parliamentary system in which the Executive and Legislative branches were always under the same control. Not only would that avoid paralysis through partisan disagreement; it would also prevent the evasion of responsibility that is the real cause of paralysis in our Government. Negotiations on the budget, for example, are more like thumb wrestling than arm wrestling: the opponents don't really disagree about the destination; they just know that whoever goes first loses...
...former members of the notorious "Koevoet" (crowbar) counterinsurgency unit, were waiting for the guerrillas. In the first large-scale clashes near the border town of Ruacana, 38 SWAPO guerrillas were mowed down by machine-gun fire, while two policemen were killed and 14 wounded. Elsewhere, the guerrillas fared little better. All told, at least 260 guerrillas and 28 Namibian security police were killed. UNTAG, which had less than one-fourth of its planned force on hand and barely 200 soldiers in the area of fighting, could do no more than look on ineffectually...