Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe, post-Clinton, that we have arrived at a time in which the public can sort out what's important and what is merely embarrassing. Do most candidates have that sort of trust in the American people? Bill Clinton certainly didn't, devising an impressively precise series of half-admissions that allowed him to get elected twice...
...with reason, that if the source of our malaise isn't obvious after a few blood tests, our physicians will consider us hypochondriacs and malingerers. One survey found that 25% of patients in doctors' offices were so tired that their condition interfered with their normal activities but that only half of them actually talked to their physician about...
...1990s, according to a controversial study, "Legalized Abortion and Crime," by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford University law professor John Donohue III. They suggest that the rise in abortions after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade may explain as much as half the overall decrease in crime from 1991 to 1997. Says Donohue: "In 1981 a third of all pregnancies ended in abortion. That social phenomenon will have a large repercussion...
There's another benefit: it's therapeutic. Heart's Ann Wilson says that talking about how her obesity and industry sexism helped derail the band in the '80s left her feeling "freed up, because once you talk about it, it can no longer eat you alive." Fabrice Morvan, half of Milli Vanilli (his partner Rob Pilatus died of a drug and alcohol overdose last year), says, "For the first time I could show who I was as a person and an artist. I felt a sense of respect...
...killed anyone, and I wasn't broke or on heroin, so I wondered what they'd focus on." The show detailed his divorce from actress Lisa Bonet and the death of his mother. Still, Kravitz, like most BTM subjects, was pleased. Says Rosenthal: "Everyone benefits." Especially VH1. A half-hour BTM spin-off for newer bands, The Road to Fame, will air this fall...