Word: check
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...modernization. Even when de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping and Zhao criticized Reagan privately for U.S. policies in the Middle East and Central America, TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman reported, they seemed more concerned about means than ends. The Chinese leaders tacitly approved of Reagan's steps to check the U.S.S.R. (including his arms buildup), but warned the President that he needed to be more artful in his dealings with the Soviets, who are skillful meddlers and propagandists in the Third World...
...poverty is so lasting." Teen-age mothers too often produce children who become teen-age mothers. Says John Bayne, a Washington social services official: "It is harder to break the cycle for kids who have only known staying home, watching the soaps on TV and getting a welfare check. They are kids who have kids." Many critics of the welfare system complain that it provides incentives for recipient families to break apart. The evidence is mixed. A recent federal study found that higher benefits encourage unmarried mothers on welfare to move away from their parents, thus increasing the number...
...great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware of his club allegiance. Says Christie: "Their uniform will never look so cool...
...Macmillan's argument that CBS's actions were intended to discourage publication of the book, Wallace responds, "Everyone says this will increase sales." He is probably right. But given Kowet's own admissions about his failing to double-check some of the facts, questions about the accuracy of many of the scenes he describes are difficult to dismiss...
...days later, HUAC members, spurred on by first-term California Congressman Richard Nixon, called Eastman Kodak to check on the film's emulsion numbers. They got bad news: the film could not have been manufactured before 1945, which meant that Chambers must be lying. Furious, Nixon phoned Chambers to demand an explanation. But minutes later, Kodak called back to apologize for its mistake: the film could indeed have been made in 1938. "Poor Chambers," said a relieved Nixon. "Nobody ever believes him at first...