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...overseas from Beijing to Belgrade) train American youth of every ethnic hue. "Sending a kid to the Army used to be the standard way to teach kids values, discipline, respect for authority, to be a member of a team, get to work on time, brush your teeth, comb your hair, clean your fingernails," says Ed Rensi. "Now, somehow, McDonald's has become the new entry-level job-training institution in America. We find ourselves doing things in that role that we would never imagine we would do." Among them: paying kids to study, rewarding them for staying in school, hiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Hamburger Helper | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...Myers, Clinton's press secretary, didn't say whether the candidate would start growing sideburns, comb his hair into a pompadour, or don the white leather fringed jackets or aviator shades favored by The King during his Las Vegas days of the early...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, THE ASSPCOATED PRESS | Title: The News Of the Weird | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

Fifteen dollars is a lot to pay for a wooden comb which isn't significantly different from a drugstore plastic one. Crayons or pencil leads stuck in inch-thick twigs (complete with bark) are unwieldy and rough to the touch, and contribute (as do the combs) to deforestation through the unnecessary and wasteful use of wood. Besides, at $3.50 a crayon, it would take a month's wages to amass a 64-color...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Just Don't Eat the Soap! | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

...homework. I had a dozen technical advisers going over the script with a fine-tooth comb. Everything that we have in there we stand behind. What is speculation is clearly speculation. We did not throw in any facts that we felt were wrong. I did make some composites. I've admitted that. I made it very clear ((in interviews)), for example, that Garrison never really met with the character called "X," played by Donald Sutherland, who explains the dimensions of the CIA conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into The Labyrinth | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

They linger, prepared to mentally break you with their incomprehensible esotericisms and their pestiferous hyper-sensitivities, and to comb through your every utterance for something, anything that might show you are anything but objective and sterile, and definitely not human...

Author: By Bader A. El-jeaan, | Title: Another World | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

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