Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason, people think of the animals as special, perhaps even more so than other intelligent creatures such as chimpanzees or elephants. Unfortunately, dolphins can be smothered by misdirected love as well as by tuna nets. Swimming with them may make their human fans feel good, but it would be better if the admiring masses appreciated their grace and intelligence from afar...
...Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What we don't have is practical ideas for building this new Europe. Do we use wood or cinder blocks? Where do we lay out the walls?" White House chief of staff John Sununu could think of no better way to counter criticism of the Administration's lack of a blueprint than to circulate anew to reporters a bound set of Bush speeches dating back to last spring -- "as if nothing had happened in Eastern Europe since then," snorts a Sununu critic in the Administration...
...this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese -- and cast them...
...become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It had been put on the block at Sotheby's in New York City by heiress Linda de Roulet, whose brother John Whitney Payson had sold Van Gogh's Irises for $53.9 million two years before. It was a far better picture than the Picasso self- portrait, Yo Picasso, that had made a freakish $47.85 million last...
Julian Agnew, the London dealer, believes that "outside regulators could create as many problems as they solve -- they may not know the market well enough. Ideally, self-regulation is better. But if a dominant firm stretches the unwritten norms of the past, ((self-regulation)) may not be enough...