Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Donald Duck is having a devil of a time making his nephews behave. The little brats stick him in the rear end, shoot him with arrows and tie him to a stake. Classic Walt Disney comedy, right? Guess again. In the view of the National Coalition on Television Violence, it is an example of the "quite troubling" level of violence on cable's year-old Disney Channel. After monitoring the channel for two weeks, the watchdog organization found an average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high...
...though, many consumers have been able to duck some of the high cost of money by taking out adjustable-rate mortgages from builders and lenders. Such loans, which typically are made at 2 to 2.5 percentage points below the interest on fixed-rate mortgages and begin to rise after a year, now account for an estimated 60% of all home lending. Notes Robert Adelizzi, president of San Diego-based Home Federal Savings & Loan: "As many as 200,000 U.S. families last year were able to get into housing that they would not have been able to afford without adjustable-rate...
Spider-Man, TV's Lindsay Wagner, a duck puppet and a character known as Hands-Off Bill are all recent conscripts in the campaign to prevent the sexual abuse of children. Their basic message: some kinds of touching are wrong, and the child always has the right...
...Boston affiliate, showed a half-hour program last week called This Secret Should Be Told, featuring Therapist-Ventriloquist Susan Linn and her two star puppets, a girl duck and a boy lion. The puppets encourage children to "tell a trusted adult" whenever they have been touched in a peculiar...
...Midwest. Next on their agenda is a tour of the West Coast. In the midst of their schedule last week they took time out to power-lunch at one of their favorite restaurants, Chicago's Chez Paul. The menu consisted of sirloin steak rare, breast of duck rare, sliced tomato and raw onion with Roquefort dressing...