Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors, which meant mainly running ourselves ragged to find the money to pay the journal's printer...
...tech research for producing ingenious new operations that remain astronomically pricey even as they become popular and desirable. He proposes a slowdown on developing gimmicky procedures like artificial hearts and a more careful review of their social and economic consequences. Says he: "We keep inventing new ways to spend money, and that complicates things...
...British themselves are more divided. There are few outright swooners. And the complaints resemble familiar complaints against the Republican Administration that has ruled America during most of the Thatcher era. She has created, say both the left and the traditional right, a vulgar, selfish, money-obsessed society, drained of more humane values. Her prosperity has been selective; the gap between haves and have-nots has increased. She has ignored the environment, allowed the public infrastructure to rot, starved the universities and other worthy institutions and causes that depend on public funds. For all her talk of freedom...
...British task force sailed to retake the Falklands from Argentina to the time the war was won. Whatever the rights and wrongs of either war, announcing the prospect of a battle is leadership; announcing a victory is not. Whether America will actually defend its freedom with blood and money when called upon is -- for all the martial rhetoric and credit-card defense spending of the 1980s -- unproved...
Frances Lear was a feisty child, a frustrated housewife and finally a divorcee with big money. With it, she is trying to free her female agemates from the youth cult...