Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handicapped children in his lesson, but most seem as oblivious to it as they are to the TV set that drones forlornly in the school's recreation room. Yet Wiseman is remarkably nonjudgmental; his best scenes are poignant rather than pointed. A class of blind children lie on the floor while three teachers caress them with wispy fabrics and a piano plunks out Over the Rainbow. "I want you to think about pleasant things," says a teacher soothingly, "and I want you to let the music go all inside...
...House's mightiest chairmen, burly Dan Rostenkowski of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. He and Chairman John Dingell of the Energy and Commerce Committee were incensed that Pepper had struck a deal to bypass their committees and take the bill directly to the floor. Rostenkowski sent out a barrage of "Dear Colleague" letters attacking the measure, and it was killed on a procedural vote...
...smoking and drinking anymore; they aren't having sex. In this atmosphere, I find great solace from my garden." Barnes has landscaped an apartment terrace that looked like a heliport when he moved in. Stands of birches, pines and apple trees rustle in the winds on the 14th-floor roof. He smiles at his lofty thoughts. "It brings my mind out of the gutter," he adds. "If everybody could have a little plot of God's green earth in the city, it would be a better place...
...year-old with a round face like a happy Buddha, phones home nearly every night. "I can't do otherwise," she shrugs. Enfolded in a pink terry-cloth bathrobe, she curls up in an armchair and lets the computerized pages of the phone bill cascade to the floor: $3,967.78 worth of calls in two months. In the kitchenette, the remains of some ipapa, South African-style cornmeal bread cooked here in the wee, homesick hours after the show, lie among empty cans of grape soda...
Since 1986, when the firm's annual earnings topped those of General Motors for the first time in 62 years, Ford has kept its accelerator to the floor. In 1987 it posted an all-time industry high of $4.6 billion in profits, with sales of $71.6 billion. In 1988 Ford is already ahead of last year's blistering pace. First-quarter earnings rose by 8.9% from the same period in 1987, to $1.62 billion, topping the combined profits of GM ($1.1 billion) and Chrysler ($184 million). Though 75% of Ford's earnings come from the U.S., it is also doing...