Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics and residential programs that depend on a mix of private donations and government funding are jammed to overflowing; tales of three-month waiting lists to get in are common. Last year Washington counted a mere 269,711 people in treatment programs that receive government assistance, and federal funding for treatment has actually been reduced in the past four...
...with rows of framed pictures that suggest comfortable surroundings of family and tradition. Lauren's home-furnishing arrangements fairly gush with conspicuous consumption: eight pillows on a bed, all with ruffles and contrasting fabrics. Lauren hopes that customers will buy the whole package, in effect trusting his ability to mix and match. Apparently they often do. Says Cheryl Sterling, president of Lauren's furnishings division: "People come into the stores and say, 'I want that bed, just the way it looks...
Winston was hardly alone in her dismay. Though all three network morning ) shows are a mix of news and entertainment (Good Morning America is produced by ABC's entertainment division, while Today is a product of NBC News), the new CBS morning show will almost certainly have less news content than its predecessor. "Everyone is disheartened to see it go," says CBS Correspondent Bill Plante. "It doesn't contribute to a sense of stability in the network...
...vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror; each is an instance of headlong narrative. Barker, already celebrated in Britain, is about to surface in the U.S. with demonic force. The world may be ready for a combination of playwright, illustrator, film director and writer, but can it accept his eerie resemblance to Paul...
This artful mix has won a steady stream of reader converts, among them Governor Sheffield, who admits he prefers the News even though "they write horrible stories about me." Advertisers too are climbing aboard, raising the News's market share to a healthy 65%. As for the once depleted and demoralized staff, it is reveling in the sleek new building, with its workout room, outdoor running track and the latest in computer technology. Marveled a visiting Fanning as she inspected the $8 million printing press: "It seems so big league...