Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JAPAN. The major Western industrial nations can only dream about matching Japan's current set of economic statistics: 5.3% growth, 2.7% unemployment and 2.6% inflation...
ABOUT FOUR IN THE MORNING after Reagan's landslide I awoke drenched in a cold sweat. Two voices, sounding remarkably like those of Reagan and Mondale, whispered into my ear. I still don't know if I was having some bizarre dream or in fact privy to an authentic phone conversation...
...says Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. "Young people today are concerned with making it, and part of making it is setting the table properly when the boss comes over for dinner. Self-improvement is a big part of the American dream, and learning manners is part of self-improvement." Or as Author-Editor George Plimpton sums it up, "Manners are better because they help you get along and get ahead. All this provides a sense of security and belonging...
...Sunday. Last week this era came to a scheduled close: Winship, 64, announced that he will retire in January to set up a program to train Third World journalists. Said he: "It is about time. I have had a lucky life, and this new project is a longtime dream, a useful way to help the less fortunate...
...Right admirers, he envisions an America governed by Christian libertarians who would strip the federal government of all responsibilities save national defense and religious guidance. Before poorer, small-town, Old Southerners he extolls a "Walton's mountain vision"-an American based on family virtues, discipline and leadership, the American Dream, and a thinly veiled segregation. Helms admits that he doesn't mind doing what Hunt calls "opening racial wounds," as he doesn't expect any Black votes...