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...ultimate responsibility still rests with parents. The goal should not be -- cannot be -- to screen out every bad word or karate chop from kids' viewing, but rather to make sure TV doesn't crowd out all the other activities that are part of growing up. These counterbalancing influences -- family, friends, school, books -- can put TV, if not out of the picture, at least in the proper focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Is TV Ruining Our Children? | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

This weekend the congressional and White House budget summiteers will try again to work out an agreement to chop down the deficit. They will meet in the officers' club complex at Andrews Air Force Base for three days. It is no longer just a session on a budget formula. It is an antidote to chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Presidency: Bush's Balancing Act | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...about pot roast? The comprehensive 44-page index says "pot roast pasta." Huh? Yes, you make this pot roast that sounds delicious, but then you chop it all up and, with its juices, spoon it over a pound of penne or pappardelle. The old pot roast is now actually a stracotto. How modern can you get? You wouldn't want the mashed spuds if you've got the pasta, but let's check anyway. Three listings: the basic one, with sour cream; one that has a whole head of cooked garlic (yum!); and one that is half potatoes and half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond The Perfect Pot Roast | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...comes high up on all Chinese name lists ((laughs)). I think, too, he remembers me from the end of 1986 and the student movement at Hefei Institute of Science and Technology. At that time I was vice president ((of the institute)), so he thought I should take the chop for those demonstrations. The second time, he probably said, "Here he comes again, so we should hit him" ((laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's FANG LIZHI: The Science Of Human Rights | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...army, the arsenal and the audacity to pursue his grand ambition to rule the region -- or rock the world. In effect, Saddam has leveled a brazen challenge: Stop me if you can. Last weekend one of his spokesmen snarled that if anyone moved against Iraqi forces, Baghdad would "chop off his arm from the shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Power Grab | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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