Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny devices, which fit completely inside the President's ear canals, contain sophisticated circuitry that allows Reagan to control their volume and eliminate telephone feedback by pressing buttons on the remote unit. The $1,900 mini-aids have an improved "noise suppression" feature that can filter out annoying background distractions -- like shouted questions from the press corps...
...time, through sheer force of gravity, the products themselves, and not just the ads, will be shaped for an older consumer. "We have designed America to fit the size, shape and style of a country we used to be," says Gerontologist Dychtwald, "and what we used to be is young." Books and newspapers, with their tiny print, are designed for wide young eyes, as is the lighting in public places. Buttons, jars and doorknobs are obstacles to those with arthritis. Traffic lights are timed for a youthful pace. "In years to come," predicts Dychtwald, "huge industries will emerge as America...
...boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
...would never do such a thing. Somehow, this is not very comforting. Because rape is only the tip of the sexist iceberg. We all know about the paucity of women professors; that male students dominate section discussions; that many women have become anorexic and bulemic in an attempt to fit the model set by, yes, that Budweiser ad. It is easy to shrug these things off because all of us are elites of one sort or another and because, of course, "guys we know" are good people...
...guys we want out there are Jerry [Pawloski] and Donny [Sweeney] and they're both lefties," said Harvard Assistant Coach Kevin Hampe. "But you change the power play to fit the personnel and not the personnel to fit the power play...