Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 70% of victims, the first sign is a rash that often looks like a bull's-eye -- white in the center and red on the outside. It erupts up to a month after the tick bite, and is sometimes accompanied by fever, stiffness and extreme lethargy. At this stage, the infection is easily cured with common antibiotics, like tetracycline. Left untreated, however, more serious symptoms may develop as the spirochete makes its way into the brain (18% of cases), the joints (57%) or the heart (10%). Correctly diagnosed, even these complications can usually be reversed with large doses...
Amid all this apparent vigilance, America's 112 million workers should be able to breathe easier, knowing that Uncle Sam is doing everything possible to ensure safer plants, factories, agricultural fields and offices. But perhaps not. The headline-grabbing cases imply that a watchful eye is being cast toward workers' safety; nonetheless, the companies involved were slapped mostly for keeping poor records of injuries and illnesses. This year's proposed fines, ranging from $477,000 for Ford to $2.59 million for IBP, were the highest ever levied by OSHA, but the penalties posed little financial hardship for the companies. Critics...
...gave Deng a good look in the eye and said, "For Christ's sake, Deng, what do you want, a safe nuclear war?" But he still didn...
...invisible gale, with old Frank Woolworth huddled like a crazed alchemist in its tower and a dragon made of dollar bills (the Spirit of Capitalism -- geddit?) waving its creaking neck from the roof, is quite a creation. But either way, one has the sense of an exaggerated rube's-eye view willfully prolonged. It reminds one that however "elitist" economy and wit may seem, vulgarity soon palls. Grooms' work is not folk sculpture -- it is too self-regarding for that -- but it enacts the illusion of folksiness. One suspects he might not know what to do if he stopped this...
...Soviet cosmonauts have accumulated 12.9 man-years in space, compared with the U.S.'s 4.8 years. Those Soviets have come down with some fascinating reports, such as the discovery that after three months 250 miles up in space, they are so attuned that they can see with the naked eye ships at sea, tanks gathering on a field and, so rumor has it, even submarines under the surface of some ocean areas...