Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Reagan's best applause lines last week was an economic figure with a lot of punch. "The news is very good," he said, provoking suspense among his audience of 9,000 people at Southeast Missouri State University. His bulletin: the U.S. trade deficit plunged to $9.5 billion during July, down from $13.2 billion in June and the smallest since December 1984. "When America goes into the market to compete," Reagan declared, "we play to win." The trade figures, which reflected a 0.7% boost in U.S. exports and an 8.9% drop in imports, prompted almost giddy reactions within the Administration...
...tossing back the stones along with some pepper gas. An hour later, both groups would call it quits. As if on cue, a water truck would roll in to hose down the street, as the police removed their helmets and the students strolled to their campus. The demonstrations made good, if somewhat misleading, television footage...
...strategy, in part, was to cripple the clones; the company even began demanding a 5% licensing fee from companies that sought to copy the PS/2. But the Micro Channel has proved too distinctive for its own good. Because it does not fully mesh with the old PC standard, the 34.8 million users of the original IBM PCs and IBM-compatible machines cannot use their peripheral equipment with the new PS/2 computers...
...practice sessions, one or two out-of-nowhere questions may slip through the rehearsal radar. Both candidates might be flummoxed by a panelist who simply asks them to justify their lifelong aversion to reading novels. You can probably tell when to be alert; neither Bush nor Dukakis is a good enough actor to totally mask that bewildered look of "Huh?" Award 5 points for the best answer to an oddball question...
...think dress guidelines are stupid," Lisa Bequette was saying just the other day, before beginning 8th grade at Maryland's Mount Airy Middle School, northwest of Washington. "I would wear a cropped T shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw...