Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke, Dirty Harry and Rambo never lose. Real-life heroes don't always have such a good track record; Delta Force is 0-1 lifetime. And unlike Rambo, they can't rewrite history so that we win all the time...
...cross-pollination creates a lively cultural blend. In Juarez, a popular hangout is the Kentucky Club, where mostly Mexican patrons select from such jukebox favorites as Duke Ellington and Julio Iglesias. Across the river in El Paso, Mexican teenagers from Juarez buy heavy metal rock LPs from Star Records, a music shop, since such disks are scarce in their city...
...view, it is the job magnet that attracts illegals across the border. Says Commissioner Nelson: "Once word spreads along the border that there are no jobs for illegals in the U.S., the magnet no longer exists." Officials see little difficulty in enforcing the sanctions. Says INS Spokesman Duke Austin: "This will be like the 55- m.p.h. speed limit. Most motorists comply. There will be some who won't, and we know who those people are right now. So our task will be greater, but not so much as one might think...
Nevertheless, the imposition of stricter limits on business entertainment deductions would almost certainly have an effect on corporate folkways. No longer would executives be able to sit down to three-star French fare without thinking of the bottom line. Charles Clotfelter, a professor of economics at Duke University, anticipates that the result will be a healthy dose of moderation. "It's still important for businesses to entertain," he says. "It always has been. But I expect to see entertaining on a much less grandiose scale." So, presumably, does Ronald Reagan...
...tapering off, and doing so at a faster pace than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been a big turnaround...