Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done to keep traffic moving? Existing highways need to be rebuilt and repaved so that they can carry more volume. The Road Information Program (TRIP), a Washington research group, says federal surveys have estimated that 62% of the 2.1 million miles of paved highways in the U.S. need some form of rehabilitation. In many cases, highways should have extra lanes or wider shoulders so that broken-down or damaged cars, which trigger about 60% of bumper-to-bumper slowdowns, can get out of the way. In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, planners are studying ways to build a double...
...emerged as the hottest health food around. People are sprinkling it on cereal, mixing it with fruit, baking it in cakes, dissolving it in shakes and swallowing it in pills. Declares Charles Rosenblum, owner of a natural-foods store in Manhattan: "People are interested in taking it in any form they...
...Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
Throughout the 1980s, American critics have attacked the Reagan Doctrine as too grandiose and expensive an undertaking for the U.S. They saw it as a form of imperial overstretch, to use the now famous phrase of Professor Paul Kennedy. This critique is unintelligible. The effects of the Reagan Doctrine have been precisely the reverse. It turned out to be an extremely cost- effective form of Western resistance to the Soviet expansion of the '70s. It made the new Soviet outposts expensive liabilities. The Reagan Doctrine demonstrated -- to the Politburo, ultimately -- that it was the Soviet empire that had overreached...
...became the most beloved and benevolent citizen of the league bought his way into the business with winnings from horse bets. The Pittsburgh Steelers' owner, Art Rooney, really the city of Pittsburgh's Art Rooney, died last week at 87, still penciling the racing form. Rooney shared his hugest track windfall with his brother, a China missionary who unknowingly repaid him in soybeans. Based on a Hong Kong weather report from Father Dan, Art made another big score in the commodities market. A saloonkeeper's son, he knew a remarkable variety of athletic pleasures. As a schoolboy football star...