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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Husbands, it's 10 a.m. Do you know where your wives are? Selling real estate? Processing words? Marauding the malls? Forget it. Every weekday morning in Pennington, N.J., an upscale village of 2,200 about halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, a number of busy wives and a sprinkling of single women put aside all thoughts of jobs, husbands and children to gather for what has become a new style women's club. In the aerobic dance classes at the local Jazzercise center, women are talking about who's hot on the silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennington, New Jersey | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...favorite topic. A fiftyish front-row regular complains that her husband does the grocery shopping (the most hated activity) every Saturday morning but says that he buys all the wrong stuff. She has to go back to the market all week long. The women agree: husbands don't know how to shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennington, New Jersey | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Physical fitness and finesse crop up on the daily agenda. In one of the last places that women regularly gather without men around, there is much discussion of quads, glutes and pecs. Many of these women know their cholesterol count, optimum training heart rate and body-fat percentage. Says instructor and center co-owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennington, New Jersey | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...confession, Government investigators have nothing to substantiate it. In yet another twist to the controversy, a highly classified intelligence-community assessment that circulated in the Government several months ago concluded that there is no credible evidence that the Moscow code room was penetrated. Perhaps only the KGB will ever know for sure. But on the basis of more than 60 interviews with diplomatic, intelligence and military officials, including many of those involved in the inquiry, TIME has reconstructed the U.S. intelligence community's own investigation of the Moscow embassy case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...month mark. A TIME/CNN poll taken last Wednesday shows Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Hitting the Right Chords | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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