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...Americans have seen plants closed down, jobsshipped overseas and our hopes fade away as oureconomic position collapses right before our veryeyes...And George Bush doesn't get it," Millersaid...
...more than anyone had predicted. If the new nuclear accord holds firm, bilateral arms negotiations, long the meat of East-West relations, are probably now complete, making Yeltsin seem absolutely vital to the promising new shape those relations are taking. In Washington the Gorbachev image is beginning to fade...
That is little comfort, however, in this excruciating season of sniffles, which will not fade until ragweed -- the antagonist that may claim more victims than any other plant -- stops flowering in the fall. There is no precise way to measure how bad an allergy season is, since pollen counts are notoriously unreliable and as variable as local weather. But in the East, where spring was unusually concentrated this year, some readings have gone off the charts. At this time in 1991, Robert Hamilton, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, generally measured 1,000 to 2,000 pollen grains...
Still, any number of obstacles could cause Perot to fade like a cheap suit. Right now he is seen as sincere (which calls to mind George Burns' famous crack, "Sincerity is everything: if you can fake that, you've got it made"). But Perot's feistiness could come to be seen as meanness, his buccaneerism as recklessness. Already some of his (few) articulated positions have been exposed as two-faced; on taxes, for example, he has alternately said over the years that he favors raising them and that he never would. He has played the system to great advantage...
...1950s and '60s, TV broods were happy, homogeneous, parent-dominated units, unburdened by any problems that couldn't be solved by a heart-to-heart with Dad at the end of the episode. The era of Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver began to fade during the '60s, but it didn't really end until 1971, when All in the Family presented a more realistic, unsentimental picture of family life than TV ever had before. That ground-breaking series gave rise to a string of untraditional TV families, from Maude (who defied the conventions of TV momdom...