Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be in caskets before they can be cremated. The new rules forbid such misleading claims. In addition, morticians must notify customers that embalming is not legally required in most circumstances. Many funeral directors embalm routinely. In one instance a truck driver was burned beyond recognition in an Illinois crash. Nonetheless, the funeral home charged his family for embalming and cosmetology...
...said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff. But not just like Macbeth, the ultimate Elizabethan screw-up. Anybody who's taken a high school Shakespeare class knows that Macbeth brought on his own tragedy. True, Lady Macbeth was the impetus for that saying. "Behind every successful...
...instinctively to simplistic, gimmicky solutions to problems that entail layers upon layers of historical background and technical complexity. Reagan's early fascination with supply-side economics in its least sophisticated form and his advocacy of a two-China policy are but two examples. He abandoned both during the crash course in realism that comes with being President. But he has clung more stubbornly to the idea of space-based defenses. He has done so for reasons that are as straightforward and sincere as they are wrongheaded...
...American home buying about to rise through the roof, or will it collapse and crash through the floor? That question is vexing builders, bankers and home buyers this spring as the prime house-hunting season gets under way. Indeed, the U.S. housing market suddenly seems to be a mass of confusing and conflicting signs...
...crash course in chic merchandising madness...