Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enterprise, the world appears to be fulfilling the President's boldest dreams. At home, most Americans have enjoyed the longest peacetime economic expansion in modern history. The "misery index" -- that combination of inflation and unemployment rates that the Democrats invoked to bedevil Gerald Ford in 1976 -- now stands at less than 10, roughly half what it was when Jimmy Carter left office. Reagan has also fulfilled his antigovernment pledge to drastically slash income-tax rates...
...created the Free Lunch illusion, a permissive fantasy in which America could indulge: less taxes, more defense spending, unlimited imported gewgaws and privatization of the obligations of community. Even as the nation's economy retreated in the face of the Japanese challenge, Reaganite gospel clung to the illusion that the cavalry would ride to the rescue in the last reel in the form of painless economic growth. "Maybe," muses a former White House adviser, "it is impossible in our time for a President to be both inspirational and candid with the people...
...Moet, Hennessy and related families, which together control 20% of the company. Racamier, another former steel executive, will speak for the Vuitton interests, which control 30% of the merged firm. Married to a Vuitton heiress, Racamier led the concern for the previous decade and propelled sales from less than $15 million in 1977 to more than $380 million in 1987. He engineered Vuitton's purchase of Veuve Clicquot champagne and Givenchy perfumes in March 1987, and last June agreed to acquire Givenchy fashions this fall. From the start, Chevalier and Racamier had trouble accepting the notion of a true merger...
...undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody out of the room. "I want to be by myself!" Did he regret the operation? "No!" he screamed. "Grownups cry for much less pain! Leave me alone, please...
Later, in a less anguished moment, he recalls his old bed, now in the basement. "I don't want to see that bed ever again," he says. "That low bed was made for a midget...