Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Dan Quayle's evasion of combat service in 1969 says about the boisterous hawkish values he professes to hold today. It's not hard to imagine what Republican hatchet men like Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater would do with this issue if the shoe were on the other foot...
...Living Fence costs $3 a foot, in contrast to $42 a foot for a chain link fence. Except for an occasional pruning (which must be done carefully), P.T. plants require virtually no maintenance. They take five years to reach effective size, but Barrier Concepts says the bushes last up to 35 years, three times as long as most metal fences. The firm hopes to sell its product to private citizens, perhaps by pushing the idea that Living Fences make the best neighbors...
...Scherb, 44, is making amends -- and profits. As owner of Old Time Boat Co. of Sarasota, Fla., he specializes in lovingly rehabilitating the now precious powerboats of the 1920s through '50s. Scherb is currently restoring 18 old runabouts, for which he will charge as much as $500 a foot. At the same time, Scherb maintains 40 woodies in varnished and polished condition for their owners and conducts a growing business as a broker of the vintage craft...
...presided over by Monsignor "Catfish" Toohey, a despised rival of Joe's since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated by the "40-foot idol" of the Great Badger, complete with waving paw and an exposed, red neon heart). Even his assistant lets him down at first. When Joe gets a curate assigned to him, he turns out to be a child of the '60s, in jeans and T shirt, who plays folk guitar...
...environmentalist Green Party: "It's not only our compassion and mourning over the thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands injured that make a speed limit imperative. It's simple economic sense too." Unlike some of its hell-driving citizenry, though, the Bonn government refuses to put its foot down -- on imposing a speed limit, that...