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Make no mistake, America has not yet reached that degraded state where most people gulp down microwavable products rather than food. But in a nation of harried two-income families, where meals are primarily an opportunity for refueling, it is hard to dismiss market researcher Faith Popcorn's bold prediction that "there aren't going to be stoves very soon." Others forecast that by 1995 half of all American kitchens will play home on the range with two microwaves. A Wall Street Journal survey found that 75% of Americans believe the microwave oven has made "life a lot better." Consumer...
...videotape procedure, agreed to last Friday, makes it less likely that Reagan will blurt out some national-security secret. If he does, Greene can edit the tape. Still, the Justice Department's refusal to permit use of some classified documents in the trial could eventually require Greene to dismiss the charges against Poindexter, an outcome also possible if Reagan wins his fight to withhold the diary. In either case, all parties involved in the tangled legal situation -- except independent counsel Lawrence Walsh -- presumably would be pleased...
That he can dismiss divestment so cavalierly suggests distrust of Tutu and more fundamentally, of the Board of Overseers...
Lawyers for NOW dismiss the assertion as a foe's ploy to "lose its creditors." Antiabortion activists privately concede that Terry's move is tactical and say Operation Rescue activities will be shouldered by the group's 110 local, legally autonomous chapters around the nation...
Most West Germans dismiss the idea of reclaiming their former territories. But revanchist organizations, which include some of the survivors of the Germans who left the east, continue to use the issue as a political weapon. Hartmut Koschyk, head of the 2 million-member Association of Expellees, suggests that a "compromise" with Poland could work out a border "territorially in the middle...