Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition proposed three Solidarity candidates: Mazowiecki, Bronislaw Geremek, the movement's parliamentary leader, and Jacek Kuron, a senior adviser. It soon became clear that Mazowiecki was Jaruzelski's choice. Said the Prime Minister-designate as he rushed from one meeting to another: "The most difficult task will be to make people think that ((life)) can be better -- even though it cannot be better immediately...
Although virtually everyone in Poland recognizes the need for economic reforms, the country lacks the money, and has failed so far to demonstrate the political will, to make them. Old factories and unproductive coal mines must be closed, meaning the loss of thousands of jobs. The Communist-dominated bureaucracy and army need to be cut back. Most problematical of all, as Mazowiecki said, living conditions will have to get even worse if they are ever to get better...
...professional, earned nearly $135,000 for a season of bumping, setting and spiking out there on the sand, and he may do even better this year. Predicts Christopher Marlowe, an ESPN sports commentator and the 1984 U.S. Olympic volleyball-team captain: "Next year a beach-volleyball player will make more than the President of the United States...
...bare-foot acrobats who charge through the sand to get to the ball, giving the game the flavor of balletic misdemeanor. The ball used on the beach is somewhat heavier than the indoor one, mainly to counteract the effects of sea breezes. The object of both games is to make the ball hit the floor -- or sand -- on the opponent's side. Both sports are played in a 30-ft. by 60-ft. playing area and use a net that is 36 ft. wide and 8 ft. high. Outdoors and in, the first team to score 15 points wins...
...sign. Cardholders will pay a membership fee of $15 and an 18.8% finance charge on unpaid balances, but the Kidcard's $100 credit limit seems to rule out wild shopping sprees. "This way, they build their own credit history," says bank vice president Cindy Culkin. "If they don't make the payments, they've blown it by themselves...