Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When people hear the words learning in retirement, most tend to focus on the retirement aspect," says Ishikawa. "As there is a greater need for retirement programs, obviously there will be reason to consider people's retirement needs. But we really are concentrating on being a facility for learning...
Peck, for one, has found the price of devotion to rock unnecessarily steep. She and Dr. Flash Gordon of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic recently founded an outfit named HEAR (for Hearing Education Awareness for Rockers) to alert performers, technicians and concert-hall staffers to the perils of pounding music and the precautions that can be taken. First among them: regular hearing checkups. They hope the message will filter down to young fans...
...months later Gorbachev came to power. The most significant act of his tenure has been his decision to pull the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. To hear some enthusiasts for the Reagan Doctrine tell it, Gorbachev was merely yielding to vigorous and effective containment: the U.S. gave Stinger missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, enabling them to blow enough Soviet helicopters out of the sky for the pragmatic new man in the Kremlin to order a tactical retreat...
...media have always been torn by two hallowed dicta. One instructed editors and producers to tell the nation what it wants to hear: if letter-turning is what captures the public's fancy, then the public deserves Vanna White every night...
...told, the show's aversion to controversy, or even issues, is more spirit-crushing than a mid-afternoon look at the Jerry Lewis telethon. One redeeming feature: you actually get to hear them use "USA" as an adjective. (As in, "USA" mah jong players are gearing up for another exciting season...