Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Save for a symbolic ring which many members wear, there are no outward traits which imply membership in the Baha'i; but that doesn't mean there are not distinguishing features of the faith which set members apart...
...reductions was stunning. The job cuts alone were the largest in the firm's history, and the write- off will all but wipe out 1986 after-tax earnings, which had been expected to approach $2 billion. While one spokesman for the Communications Workers union accused the company of "mean and inappropriate" behavior for breaking the news during the holiday season, Chairman James Olson insisted that the belt tightening was necessary to counter growing competition in the communications industry. Said he: "This is no longer the old, stable monopoly business...
...sprays. The hair growers. Have you learned to grow hair? Does such a thing matter? The height of us: an average of 5 ft. 3 1/2 in. for women, 5 ft. 9 in. for men. You must be taller now. Have you raised the height of the baskets? I mean in basketball. Do you play it still? And football, and baseball? You must be playing baseball; we call it the national pastime, if you do not count self- inspection. (A future without baseball?) Did I mention hibachis, Exercycles, capped teeth, diet drinks, sofa beds, Winnebagos, microwaves, VCRs, IBMs, electric pencil...
...reported only one case of AIDS. In 1985 an Argentine tourist succumbed to the illness in a Peking hospital. In October four Chinese hemophiliacs who had received an imported blood coagulant tested positive for AIDS antibodies, which indicates that they have been exposed to the virus but does not mean they will come down with the disease...
While the White House's quick response laid some doubts to rest, it did not answer the blunter question that is now being asked from Managua to Washington: Does the deepening U.S. crisis mean that it is curtains for the contras? Although the rebels have held on through several funding crises in recent years, there are doubts in both the U.S. and Central America that they can survive the current ordeal. Last week, as the U.S. press analyzed the contras' prospects in funereal tones, some officials went so far as to offer up eulogies. "I think the counterrevolution is nearly...