Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major obstacle to the spread of private enterprise, says Duke University Economist Thomas Naylor, "is not ideology but rather the lack of familiarity with market mechanisms." That shortcoming was illustrated recently by the baffled reaction of a shopkeeper in a state-owned Moscow clothing store when asked her views on the new private companies. Suppose someone wanted to produce shoes privately, she said. "Where would they get the leather or the rubber?" Such materials have always been distributed to state-run enterprises by Gossnab, the government's main supply agency. There is not yet a procedure under which a private...
Send this man of steel out to terminate the Terminator. He's clean and lean, with the soul of a blue machine -- an incorruptible, indestructible cop. Shoot him and he barely gets dented; bribe him and he turns you in. With a gait as clangorous as "Duke" Wayne's, he walks down the mean streets of tomorrow's Detroit, scaring felons with the cool metallic whisper: "Your move, creep." Who is this electronic enforcer? Flint Beastwood? Not quite. Because somewhere inside his mind's computer circuitry, images linger: of a smiling wife, of an adoring son, of the too human...
Madison was reminded that his literary agent had come down from New York. Though he loathed the power lunch scene at Duke Zwilling's Tavern, Madison felt compelled to put on a good show. Speedy Lorenz had brought along a top editor from Rumpole House to discuss publication of Madison's proposed Essays on Federalism. The protocols of a proper business meal were followed scrupulously: aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point...
...Nightline Moderator Ted Koppel at Duke University, Durham, N.C.: We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us. Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle. Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but wear a condom. No! The answer is no. Not because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching...
Hopes for an experimental vaccine sagged when Duke University's Dr. Dani Bolognesi and NCI's Dr. Robert Gallo, a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, reported that tests on chimpanzees had failed. Chimps, one of man's closest relatives, are considered critical to vaccine research. The idea of a vaccine is to trick the body into producing specific antibodies that can attack the invading virus. The research team had vaccinated six chimps with proteins from the outer shell of the AIDS virus, then injected them with live virus to test the vaccine's effectiveness. But within three weeks...