Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are no gray areas in Ridley Scott movies; the director of Blade Runner tosses color and atmosphere into every shot. The man has never photographed a dry sidewalk in his life; the tiles have got to glisten like Bakelite in heat. Neon glyphs snake around each lurid shop sign. An ominous bike boy threads his Suzuki around columns in a Japanese mall-cathedral...
Advertisers favor O'Neill for his familiar face and grandfatherly voice. The pay is handsome: for a day's work he gets $100,000, equivalent to his annual salary as Speaker. Says he: "I always said I'd never be a lobbyist, and lo and behold, a new career fell upon me." Next on his agenda: ads for the Trump Shuttle...
...restaurant would be the world's largest McDonald's outlet, with 900 seats. But the Moscow Mac's development has been a long slog, in part because of logistic and bureaucratic hassles. McDonald's may prove to be a hard sell to Muscovites, most of whom have never heard of a hamburger or couldn't afford one. Even so, last week's graduates were bullish. Says Khamzat Khazbulatov, 33: "We will bring back all the skills that result in excellent profits and sales...
...deeply ingrained caution about doing "something dumb," as Baker put it last week. It also suits the hard-line doubters, like NSC deputy Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Vice President Dan Quayle, who think Gorbachev is only a short-timer and the Soviet Union will never really change...
Critics argue, however, that AZT should not be subject to the usual practices of the pharmaceutical industry. The drug was first synthesized in 1964 by a Government-funded scientist in Michigan who was searching for a cancer treatment. Although that application never panned out, investigators at the National Cancer Institute, along with scientists from Burroughs Wellcome, discovered in 1984 that the drug blocks the AIDS virus from reproducing. By some estimates, the help provided by the Government scientists eventually allowed Burroughs to hold its development costs to less than $100 million, in contrast to $125 million for the average drug...