Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least, Carlucci's moves will set guidelines for his successors in dealing with the new lean era. Beyond that? Well, Michael Dukakis has praised Carlucci for beginning to face up to the hard choices that must be made. This has led to speculation that Carlucci, who has already served one Democratic President (as deputy director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter), might continue to head the Pentagon through a Dukakis Administration. Dukakis "could do a lot worse," says Senator Nunn. In a Bush Administration, Carlucci would be a natural holdover, as well as a candidate for Secretary of State...
...kneeling and digging and weeding seems to have an equally salutary effect on the human spirit. "He who would have beautiful roses in his garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into...
...motive for many households is not just variety but purity and control over what they eat. Pests must be killed and plants fed, but the ingredients in pesticides and fertilizers often invite images of chemical warfare. Gardeners have grown cautious about what they use to defend against bugs. Jerry Baker, author of The Impatient Gardener, advises spraying the lawn with a mixture of Listerine, ammonia, chewing-tobacco juice and dish washing liquid. Others have discovered beer for immobilizing slugs, and human hair to discourage squirrels...
First it disrupts the domestic routine, as eggshells and quartered-orange peels are painstakingly transported from city to country to compost heap. Everything must be saved for that site: last year's annuals, the top of the lawn, wayward bits of hedge, all the archaeology of the planting season. Then the catalogs begin to multiply; one nursery carries more than 1,000 varieties of geraniums; another's pages read like a gothic romance. Since all addictions have organizations, the invitations start arriving to join the clubs. There are hundreds of groups for roses alone, not to mention the American Bamboo...
...Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable midsize sedans and wagons (nearly 460,000 sold in the U.S. last year at prices starting at about $11,800) remain among the most popular cars on the road. The revamped Lincoln Continental ($26,600 and up) is in such demand that some customers must wait as long as five months for delivery. To appease impatient Continental buyers, Ford has started to send them $20 Cross pen-and-pencil sets along with an apologetic note; one customer returned the gift, expressing a preference for the car. Hottest of all are Ford's trucks: last year...