Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These young women are role models of self-possession; yet as they bump up against the untidy problems of adolescence each week, they also resemble the kids you might find flocking around a CK counter on a Saturday afternoon. Moesha may work at setting up a trip to Africa to research her heritage, but she also has a weakness for vinyl pants; Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) idolizes Annie Leibovitz but loves to dress like Audrey Hepburn; and though Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) may be great at offing vampires, she still cares deeply about making the cheerleading squad...
...troubling political issue seems to be transpiring. While the 5,000 rallyers listened to President Clinton, several thousand more people gathered at another rally a number of miles away--this one to protest. According to Brian Becker, a coordinator of the National People's Campaign that is sponsoring a counter-conference to the Summit, "the [President's] summit is all hoopla and propaganda." Becker and the thousands that joined him claim that the President's conference and the campaign for which it is a kick-off are a paltry and thinly-veiled attempt to justify both the reduction in government...
...trade pacts, with no chance to amend them. It will be a tough sell. Although the Administration can show positive numbers from the agreement -- NAFTA-generated trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact...
...doctors, a large number of their patients and much of the health-care establishment want no part of it. Even specialists in the treatment of pain who prescribe narcotics on a regular basis refer to the drugs as "opiate medications," as if calling them by a different name would counter their shady reputation...
...values." The show did not make viewers believe that being a single parent was fun or beneficial; on the other hand, it didn't condemn out-of-wedlock children either. Whatever influence the show had came in the public discourse that followed. The reaction by Quayle and then the counter-reaction created an environment of debate that forced the issue of unwed parents into the social arena. Of course there had been unwed mothers before Murphy Brown, but until then the networks had resisted depicting them as leading figures. The case of Murphy Brown was a break-through because...