Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...routine birth control, why heterosexuals need condoms." The stunning reckless claim is supported with figures (whose statistical significance seems questionable) on the spread of AIDS among sexually active women. Lichtman has missed a crucial point: the fact that the occurance of an incident may be unlikely does not mean that one shouldn't be concerned with or take steps to prevent it. Should the statistical unlikelihood of nuclear war in the next ten years prevent us from concerning ourselves with disarmament, or should the statistically unlikelihood of contracting polio prevent us from being vaccinated? No doubt, the installation of condom...
...networks' courtly euphemism for their censorship departments. But it is a dafter delusion, on Broadcast Row or Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue or any other center of American power these days, to think that old-fashioned moral standards have much to do with today's lean, mean, rapier-clean business practices. Does a news organization, like the one in Broadcast News, employ too many talented men and women to keep its profits proud and its corporate raiders on hold? Then it will package the old reliables and promote the young presentables -- including a good-looking network reporter with nothing...
...disillusioned right makes the same mistake that liberals have made for years: believing that Reagan does not really mean what he says. He came into office preaching that previous arms negotiations were "fatally flawed" because they sought to limit rather than reduce nuclear weapons. Even as he pursued his military buildup, he clung to the notion that its purpose was to force the Soviets to negotiate "real reductions." Perhaps he believed it from the outset, or perhaps (as is often the case with Reagan's verities) he said it so much that he convinced himself. Either...
...marvelous rendering of New York, New York, the time you turned up the radio and cut loose somewhere out on I-80 east. Except that now people do it onstage. Some of them actually make money at it, with friends filling in on air guitar or blowing a mean sax solo on a toilet-bowl plunger. And other people come out to watch...
...spokesman Allen Meyers told the Associated Press that his organization would probably not punish the university. "As a rule, we are less likely to fine educational institutions," he said. But, he added, "That doesn't mean...