Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy; today they manage about 15%, ranging from oil production to banking to supermarkets and parking lots. Some 1.5 million bureaucrats now occupy 3,500 Mexico City buildings, and nothing seems to work very well. Four years ago, city officials proclaimed the establishment of block committees to express community needs, but those that exist serve mainly as organs of PRI patronage. About the only system that actually functions is amiguismo, roughly "friendshipness." Says Meyer: "When the water stops, our neighbor runs over to the waterworks and tells a friend, who sees to it that somebody turns on the right valve...
...much stock in hard rock, but they may soon find MTV, the rock-video cable channel, a promising investment. Considered a risky venture when it made its debut in 1981, MTV has already attracted an audience of 21.8 million households. In August the channel's owners, American Express and Warner Communications, are expected to offer the first public shares in a new company called MTV Networks, which comprises the rock network and a children's cable channel, Nickelodeon. The corporate owners plan to sell 5.1 million shares priced at $16 to $18 each...
...bulging grimace of a weight lifter? Art rarely pins these things down. Painters miss it. Writers do worse, with exceptions such as Mailer on boxing, Updike on golf, Hemingway on a bobsled run: "A bob shot past, all the crew moving in time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother around the curve and dropped off down the glassy run below." The ands do it. Everything must keep moving. Housman celebrated an "athlete dying young" because...
Even though the dollar's strength works tirelessly for the tourist, experts have a few tips on how to get the most for the money. They advise travelers, for example, to use credit cards rather than cash. Reason: giants like American Express buy foreign currencies at the most favorable rates before paying foreign merchants, and then pass some of the savings to cardholders when billing them in dollars for their purchases abroad. Traveler's checks also generally earn better rates than cash because they are easier and cheaper to process. In addition, tourists can gain...
...note that voters have been asked to respond to a theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them. In- deed, Mondale's aides admit that their belief that a woman vice-presi- dential candidate will help the ticket is based on gut feelings rather than any statistical evidence...