Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government isn't the solution; it's the problem." As a candidate and a President, Ronald Reagan loved that line. But Reagan seemed simply to be indulging in harmless hyperbole or offering his version of the time-honored aphorism that government is best when it governs least. Surely he did not seriously propose to dismantle an institution that had brought the U.S. through two world wars, restored stability during the Depression and played a major part in developing one of the highest standards of living on earth...
...setting where actors can live and breathe like real people, and the Bridges boys are better than fabulous in it -- Jeff not quite falling over the line into unredeemable cynicism, Beau never succumbing to the pull of moral blandness. Pfeiffer, who does her own singing, is a cat with at least nine dimensions ever aflicker in her eyes...
...whose creations send department-store executives into fits of giddy optimism. The Queen of Seventh Avenue, as the fashion press calls her, Karan is chief executive officer and head designer of a five-year- old company that expects to rake in $115 million in revenues this year. Her sportswear line arrived in stores eight months ago in one of the most successful launches in fashion history. Says Joan Kaner, senior vice president of the Neiman Marcus chain: "Donna's name is magic right...
...ruling party, formerly known as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, is no longer officially Communist. At a five-day congress that ended in Budapest last week, 1,274 delegates voted overwhelmingly to take the Communism out of socialism and become the Hungarian Socialist Party. They also sent hard-line General Secretary Karoly Grosz into political oblivion and repudiated much of four decades of Communist rule, including the suppression of the 1956 uprising by Soviet troops...
...much for some of the party's hard-liners. They set about forming their own political groups, each claiming to represent the ideals of the old Communist Party. "We will soldier on as a Communist Party," said Roland Antoniewicz, leader of the Janos Kadar Society, one newborn hard-line splinter named after the party's longtime leader who died in July...