Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What better way to police a company than to sign up a former top cop? Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, which agreed last month to settle criminal- fraud charges, plans to hire a new chairman for its holding company. Drexel's choice to succeed Robert Linton: John Shad, the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Drexel is also recruiting trade consultant Roderick Hills, another former SEC chief, to serve on the firm's board. Neither had formally accepted by week...
...tropical oil issue is growing out of proportion," declares Basil Rifkind, a cholesterol researcher at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Roughly 15% of the calories in Americans' diets now come from saturated fats. And tropical oils supply only about a fourteenth of that amount. Americans might better worry about cutting back on the two biggest sources of saturated fat: meat and dairy products...
...color." He kids her about suspending the usual rules of conduct when it comes to her English springer spaniel, Millie. "That dog literally comes between us at night," he complains. "She wedges right up between our heads, and Bar likes it. She's failing with the discipline. She was better with the kids than she is with the dog." Millie is pregnant, Bush announced last week...
...Carson? Don't make us laugh. Failed challengers to the Tonight show king have piled so high in recent years that noting them has become an exercise in sadism. The surprise last week was that Pat Sajak, whose late-night talk show on CBS debuted to friendly reviews and better-than- expected ratings, proved instantly that he is the man to beat as Johnny's spiritual heir...
...companies, and Americans for Democratic Action, a left-wing organization that rates public office holders on their support for liberal issues. Both groups contend that a gas-tax increase would unfairly burden lower-income motorists because they spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel than better-off drivers do. The opponents are joined by state legislators, who fear that a higher federal levy would squeeze their ability to raise more revenues through their own gas taxes (national average: 15 cents...