Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Subscribers use the computer networks with one eye on the clock. Start-up fees are modest (generally less than $50), but hourly costs can vary from $6 at night to as high as $15 during business hours, plus a surcharge for some features. This discourages many people from fully exploring the myriad services. Says Bill Pytlovany, a computer specialist from Scotia, N.Y.: "You tend to browse less when you know the meter is running...
...born, there is nobody who can teach you. "But just like with Koufax and all the great fastball pitchers, it's Gooden's curve ball that really leaves the hitters standing." After his two glorious years, Score lost the 1957 season to a line drive in the eye. His arm shortly withered. "Whatever it is that makes you have a little extra, I just didn't have that anymore. It can be taken away, you know...
...Institute of Technology, alma mater of Calvin Klein and other top American design talent. FIT is just in the throes of giving the green trees of academe a good shaking. The institute has devoted much of its gallery space to a show called "The East Village," which offers an eye-scalding, rambunctious and appropriately free-spirited tour of boho fashion, Manhattan style. There is a lot of fun- house art on the walls, and sculpture that looks as if it belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island. Jewelry resembles a collection of body ornaments from some lost tribe...
...tending consumers will want to keep an eye on Washington for possible changes in the rules. President Reagan has proposed increasing the top IRA contribution for nonworking spouses from $250 to the $2,000 that is currently allowed for working people. Many legislators oppose that idea, because they believe it would benefit mostly the wealthy. In another development, the House passed a tax-reform bill last November that included a provision to discourage early IRA withdrawals by increasing the penalty from 10% to 15%. That measure could stand a chance, since the Senate Finance Committee is considering the same step...
...unpropitious sign. When China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared at a lunar New Year's celebration in early February, his right eye, which is often half closed, drooped shut completely. Then the 81-year-old Deng, who had just returned from six weeks in seclusion, again disappeared from public view. Anxious Chinese citizens and China watchers began to fear that his health had taken a serious turn for the worse...