Word: companionably
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McCain. A longtime friend and vacation companion of the S&L boss, the Arizona Republican and his wife had frequently traveled on Keating's company planes. McCain attended two key meetings in 1987 with the other Senators (Riegle missed one of them) to press their benefactor's complaints that then Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman Edwin Gray and the board's San Francisco regulators were harassing Lincoln Savings. McCain asked the White House to name a Keating crony to the board. But McCain refused to relay a Keating- suggested compromise to the regulators. Though seeing no improper conduct...
Partly to deflect the growing unhappiness, trustees of the College Board last week revised the SAT, although less radically than some critics had wanted. Starting in 1994, the SAT and its companion Achievement Test will be known as SAT-I and SAT-II.The former will test verbal skills and reasoning ability in math; the latter, knowledge of certain specific subjects, such as history and politics. SAT-I will include longer critical reading passages and more questions to test students' understanding of the material...
Since women are the nation's top consumers, advertising has always made them the center of its world. Ads portrayed proper female aspirations: to be a desirable companion, a competent cleaner, a loving mother. The women in ads found fulfillment in the supermarket aisles -- and in Maidenform bras. But as millions began to venture beyond the home in the 1970s, the images had to change. Madison Avenue's women developed minds of their own. Consider the female Honda buyer, who thinks like a man. Or Charlie, reaching out to touch someone. Even romance mirrors complex modern reality: the cute young...
Verhoeven could have made a straightforward documentary on the subject; in fact he did, as a companion piece to The Nasty Girl. But in this movie he dresses fact up as fable. Passau becomes Pfilzing, and Anja Rosmus is now Sonja Rosenberger, a precocious sprite full of life and full of herself. The movie takes its spirit from Sonja; it is bold, nettlesome and great...
Television has, of course, been an inseparable companion for most American youngsters since the early 1950s. But the baby boomers, who grew up with Howdy Doody and Huckleberry Hound, experienced nothing like the barrage of video images that pepper kids today. Cable has vastly expanded the supply of programming. The VCR has turned favorite shows and movies into an endlessly repeatable pastime. Video games have added to the home box's allure...