Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis' populist appeal is an elite-seeking missile homing in on the pocketbook. He suggested that Bush's proposed capital-gains tax break would help the privileged few "hire a second butler." He derided it by using the example of a taxpayer who reported capital gains of $515,132 between 1985 and 1987. Such a taxpayer would save $22,000 a year. His name: "George Herbert Walker Bush...
...time the Soviet ships joined Operation Breakthrough, enthusiasm for the $1 million-plus project had waned. Scientists openly criticized the rescue mission. During a discussion of whether using dynamite to break up the ice would damage the whales' hearing, biologist Ron Morris of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joked, "We'd probably fit them with hearing aids and eyeglasses...
...caesareans, risk tearing along the scar. Their advice: better to have another C-section. But the vast majority of those who have undergone C-sections have had the preferred horizontal incision across the lower abdomen, or "bikini cut," and for them last week's announcement may finally break the old saw against vaginal delivery the second time around, and even the third...
...adoringly, and his children, sparkling with intelligence and good health, sit obediently nearby. Or do they? In the midst of this year's no-holds-barred campaign season, families of candidates high and low are beginning to change the old rules by candidly airing their grievances and trying to break out of cardboard caricatures. "They're still reticent," notes Stuart Hart, a psychologist at Purdue University. "But they're also standing up and saying, 'Hey, wait a minute, I've got needs...
...lawyers on a scale previously unimagined. On one side is the firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, until now the undisputed master of the leveraged buyout. On the other is an alliance between a group of RJR Nabisco executives and Shearson Lehman Hutton, an old-line investment firm determined to break KKR's dominance of the hottest, most lucrative business on Wall Street. If either side pulls off the deal, the course of U.S. corporate history could be changed forever...