Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down South, the heirs of the soap-obsessed Walt Disney have raised bathing to an art form. In Florida, Walt Disney World has just opened Typhoon Lagoon, the last splash in water theme parks. Visitors can paddle in a wave pool the size of 2 1/2 football fields, which sports computer-controlled water chambers that empty out in a torrent of 4-ft. waves simulating ocean surf. High above on Mount May Day teeters a replica of a wrecked fishing boat that periodically spouts a spray of water. In keeping with the typhoon motif, one artfully ramshackle building...
...What?" They turned to me, confused and I think probably shocked that I could still form words...
...that is exactly what the man in the elevator did. My friends thought the situation was too trivial to make an issue out of, but I have to disagree. Daily activities, encounters with strangers may not be life-changing events, but they form the bulk of a person's life. The personal is political, especially because the personal is all that most people have to work with...
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled six weeks ago that torching an American flag is a constitutionally protected form of speech, politicians have stampeded to show off their patriotic fealty to Old Glory. Last week the House Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic proposal that would make setting fire to the Stars and Stripes a federal crime punishable by a year in prison. The measure could run into opposition from other Congressmen who think that nothing short of a constitutional amendment will serve to protect the flag from fiery desecration...
...encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans for day- care enrichment," she muses, "could roam the neighborhoods as the ice- cream man did in my childhood...