Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing vogue for stair climbing has been made possible by the development of new and better machines. They come in a dozen different models, including several home versions, that are easier to use and much more widely available than earlier devices. Over the past year, many health clubs have doubled the number of machines for their members. Even so, supply has badly trailed demand. In some places club managers strictly enforce time limits to keep people from fighting over the machines. Those tired of the health-club hassle can buy home machines for much less than...
...despite all their high-tech wizardry, stepping machines offer little that a staircase cannot provide. "There is nothing magical about the machines," says Steve Farrell of the Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas. "You can get the exact same benefit from just climbing stairs in the home or office." And going between floors on foot can be healthier for the bank account...
...past year. "Some are lawyers and businessmen who are skimming cash from their businesses, and they've heard about what you can do through an offshore bank," says Tampa IRS supervisor Morris Dittman. "Others have cash that rolls out of the drug trade. When a druggie buys a big home and car for cash, you have a real estate agent and a salesman with sudden cash, and they begin wondering if they have to share it with the Government...
Meanwhile, Mikhail Gorbachev is confronting a political crisis as the reforms he inspired in Eastern Europe begin to haunt him at home. With Gorbachev's tacit blessing, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have joined Hungary and Poland in abolishing the Communist Party's constitutional monopoly on power. Nonetheless, the Soviet leader has always insisted that the party must retain its pre-eminence in his country if perestroika is to succeed. Last week the Lithuanian legislature defied Gorbachev's wishes and legalized rival political parties, setting the stage for other Soviet republics to do the same. This week radical delegates are expected...
Assimilation does not make women feel at home; it only makes them feel invisible...Plugging more women into what was once an all-male institution and expecting them to conform will only perpetuate those feelings of invisibility. The University should work towards breaking the public silence by giving support and respect to a women's center such as the Forum and to women's groups such as the Women's Clearinghouse...Finally, women need not only recognition, but leadership. Expanding Radcliffe admissions lists will mean little to educated women until the University is willing to increase the number of women...