Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good news about Twins is that this temptation has been sternly resisted. And there is no bad news about it: no shocking language, no pants-dropping vulgarity, no desperately paced action designed to disguise witlessness. The movie's serene self-confidence encourages the viewer to settle back comfortably and just let it happen. And this is all the more surprising in that director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles) has in the past sometimes not known when he should leave well enough alone...
This week's cover stories on "good" cholesterol nearly created a crisis in the home of senior writer David Brand, who wrote both the main story and the accompanying article on nutrition. Brand became so intrigued by the topic that he began to analyze the cholesterol content of all the meals his family ate. "That nearly drove my daughters Leslie and Robyn crazy," he recalls. "They accused me of ruining every meal and wanted to ban the subject altogether." Never an autocrat at the table, Brand capitulated in the interest of domestic peace...
...week that he was ready to jettison unnecessary weapons and reform Pentagon procurement, but only if Congress would quit meddling with hundreds of weapons and research projects each year. Yet unless Bush can find someone willing to serve as deputy, Tower may never get a chance to put his good intentions to work...
...Sidney Jones, a professor at Georgetown University's business school: "The Federal Reserve is overreacting to the risk of what it perceives as an overheated economy. I don't think it's there." Adds Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential- Bache Securities: "I hope Greenspan doesn't do too good a job of keeping the lid on, because it could cause a recession. I don't think he will, but he could take some of the joy out of the Christmas season...
...show off the American dream by counting swimming pools in the backyards of factory workers. Gorbachev will have to settle for the Trump version of that dream. "I'm a representative of the American people," says Trump. "I want to let him know the American people are pretty good people...