Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California, J-Paul Dumont knocked down the walls between his grown children's bedrooms in his Palo Alto home to set up a deluxe sweatshop complete with mirrored walls, sophisticated weight-lifting devices and a chrome rack that contains rows of dumb-bells. A whirlpool tub is in the bath next door. The $100,000 price tag also bought style: the entire suite is done in art deco. Working out, says Dumont, 55, an investment banker, "is a lot better at home...
...shortage inevitable at some point in the future. But the trend toward conservation will not easily be reversed. Says Economist Heller: "It would take a long, long time to go back to our old oil-guzzling habits. This could be a trap, but only if we are dumb enough to fall into...
...number and a growing problem for park wildlife managers. When the Montana legislature passed a law allowing seven months of tightly regulated public hunting of Yellowstone buffalo that forage across the state line, animal rights activists became incensed. Said Rancher Ed Francis of Corwin Springs: "The animals are very dumb, and they just stand there and allow people to kill them. There's no sport...
...there in dumb terror, trying ineffectually to wipe vodka and tomato juice off my pants with an airsickness bag, the plane executed a series of dives and rolls that would have been difficult in a fighter plane, let alone a DC-10. To my great displeasure, I found my sentiments echoed loudly by a two-year old in the seat behind me, who let loose a bloodcurdling screech with every undulation of the plane. Eventually, the head steward clawed his way to the intercom and coughed to get our attention. I halfway expected him to begin showing...
...which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still has a job is because of his close personal friendship with the ABC News president. How ironic, coming from the man about whom fans and sports...