Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lacovara said the journal's format will allow it to present issues in more depth and with better perspective on events...
Prince of the Panhandle. T. Boone Pickens has few regrets about his raiding career. "Our motives were sincere," says the Amarillo, Texas, oilman. "We believed we could run those companies better than they were being run." Pickens, 61, never managed to acquire such energy giants as Gulf Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Unocal, all of which he attacked in the mid-'80s. Yet he enriched himself by acquiring stock in the companies and then selling the shares at a profit, making nearly $400 million on his Gulf raid alone...
Resentment against the army's influence over civil society almost certainly played a role. In a recent survey, 73% of those questioned said officers have a better chance of promotion in civilian life, 59% thought their boss was an officer, and 34% added that he continued to treat them like soldiers in the office. The cooler new military mood may also reflect the "feminization" of Switzerland. Women did not receive the vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says...
...sooner the better, some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than...
Long dreaded and long delayed, the forced repatriation of Hong Kong's 44,217 Vietnamese boat people is about to begin. The U.S. opposes the new policy on humanitarian grounds, at least until conditions in Viet Nam change for the better. But the British government, convinced that less stringent policies will not stop the flow of illegal immigrants to the crown colony, is determined to go ahead. Under the plan, the British and Hong Kong governments will reportedly provide about $620 in cash for each deportee, or a total of $27 million if all who are currently in the colony...