Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he left Hungary, Bush had a special demonstration of the new wave. When he arrived to deliver his formal address at Karl Marx University, it was difficult to find any sign of Marx. The lone statue at the far end of the huge hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped...
...George Foreman who found religion in a San Juan, Puerto Rico, dressing room in 1977, proclaimed boxing an affront to God and announced he was quitting forever. This is the same Foreman who ballooned to 320 lbs. from a fighting trim of 217, and even today at 255 is far beefier than anyone who wants to hold the title should be. As for the recent wins, all were against unknowns or retreads who will probably never get within spitting distance of the Top Ten contenders...
Thanks to unusually passionate praise from car-buff magazines, the Miata is by far the most talked-about new auto on the market. Road & Track named it one of the five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers...
...James Goldsmith forced them to take another look by launching a surprise $21 billion hostile bid for B.A.T Industries (1988 revenues: $29 billion). Backed by investors Kerry Packer, the Australian industrialist, and Jacob Rothschild, the British financier, Goldsmith plans to break up the sprawling London-based conglomerate and "liberate" far-flung divisions that sell everything from cigarettes (Kool, Viceroy) to insurance in more than 40 countries...
Moreover, points out Eugene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972, with such a long-range goal "we can then work backward and take the steps to get us there." That would eliminate the let's-build-it-and-see-what-it's-good-for approach. Far from withering, other space initiatives would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists...