Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for the growing popularity of tanning salons is an advance in technology. Old-fashioned sunlamps emit strong doses of ultraviolet radiation, which can cause a quick sunburn if one is not careful. New tanning machines, however, block out most of the sunburn-linked beta rays (UVB) in favor of alpha rays (UVA), which promote a more gradual tan. The most popular device for soaking up UVA is a clamshell-like tanning bed. The customer lies down on a Plexiglas surface, closes the lid and relaxes as lights from above and below bake him to a golden brown...
...took eleven years more--and Star Wars--before movie audiences were allowed to hear and see what Ford could do, but since then, he has shown over and over again that he has not only got it, but got it big enough to draw lines that stretch around the block and into the next galaxy...
...closing scene of Act I leaves the seductive on the chopping block, but the audience is lost to self-congratulation. "We're not all here," one particularly groomed young man confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which"-- punning in spite of himself?--"is better than last year." Observers, noting the queasy rush toward the bathrooms, doubtless agreed. But the lure of the magnums proved difficult to resist; although the lights dimmed and then flicked frantically, hundreds of champagne-soaked feet remained planted firmly in the crowded lobby...
...full farm-policy changes the Administration seeks are probably too drastic for Congress to accept in this session. But Reagan, Block and Stockman have at least opened a debate going well beyond the usual wrangles over so many cents per bushel to the fundamentals of farm policy. Should its goal be to keep farmers in business or to produce an industry able to compete in world markets, and in an era of $200 billion budget deficits, how much can taxpayers reasonably be required to shell out? In that debate, the opponents can muster plenty of humanitarian emotion, but the Administration...
...them as props for an attack on the President's budget. Brandishing one that carried the word VETERANS in black letters on its side, Stockman suggested that the $18 billion military pension plan, which covers 1.3 million military retirees, is an expenditure that could go on the congressional chopping block. "I'll probably be in hot water for saying it," Stockman confessed, "but I'm going to say it because it's about time it was said...