Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending or the "tough and difficult decisions" on Pentagon weapons, Dukakis used the word to portray himself as possessing the macho fiber to sit in the Oval Office...
...panoply of new video choices: cable channels, independent stations, videocassette recorders, even an upstart "fourth network." The three networks' combined share of the audience shrank to a low of 70% last season, and the decline shows no signs of leveling off. New technologies like home satellite dishes and fiber-optic cable could eventually pose even greater threats. "We've been outplayed, outsold, outmarketed, outhustled by younger entrepreneurs," says Howard Stringer, the former president of CBS News recently promoted to head of the CBS Broadcast Group. "We are still the Goliath of broadcasting, but we will be slain...
Another technology that could help bury the networks is fiber-optic cable, which can greatly increase the number of channels brought into the home. Fiber optics will make possible a new array of home services, such as video shopping and information retrieval. The technology could come more quickly, moreover, if telephone companies are allowed to transmit cable programming over fiber- optic lines; the FCC is contemplating asking Congress to permit just that...
...bran works is still a mystery. One theory is that soluble fiber, which is plentiful in oats as well as citrus fruits and peas and beans, binds up cholesterol-rich bile acids that aid in digestion, thus helping to remove LDLs from the bloodstream. Health experts, however, are cautioning that many new oat products are high in saturated fats and calories. Kellogg's Cracklin' Oats cereal, for example, is made with coconut oil, a dietary no-no. And many muffins are loaded with eggs and sugar. Moreover, oat enthusiasts are mistaken if they think scarfing down oats allows them...
...what Harvard Economist Robert Reich has dubbed "chronic entrepreneurialism." These contrarians contend that America's obsession with start-up companies is undermining U.S. competitive strength. They blame the proliferation of small companies for an alarming loss of U.S. market share in strategic high-tech businesses, ranging from semiconductors to fiber optics. The constant sprouting of new ventures, they explain, may be weakening the U.S. industrial structure by splintering American manufacturing power into too many small pieces...