Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although his tennis pro wife Marcia probably got a kick out of the Times article, it is doubtful that Carlucci found it so funny. Despite the tongue-in-cheek tone, the reporter nonetheless was implying that a man's misbehavior on the tennis court might offer some insight into his possible performance in office...
...typical C.O.A. meeting, participants sit in a circle and offer reflections on their own experiences, from a paralyzing fear of intimacy to acute conditions like bulimia, a disorder marked by episodes of excessive eating. At the heart of their pain and confusion is a childhood fraught with anxiety. "When we were kids and our parents were drunk, it was our problem," a 21-year-old daughter of an alcoholic told TIME's Scott Brown. "Somehow it seemed that we should be super people and make our family healthy." Reliving painful childhood experiences among sympathetic listeners enables the C.O.A.s to feel...
...part, the U.S. announced last month that it will offer to eliminate all licensing requirements for the export of militarily sensitive technology to its Western allies, provided that those countries will tighten their controls governing the export of goods to the Soviet Union. The goal is to allow products to move more freely within the walls of COCOM, even as those walls grow higher and harder for outsiders to breach. That might help American firms reduce what is now a trade deficit in high-tech goods, without doing so at the expense of the country's security...
More dismal is the picture on independent stations, which typically offer a horde of look-alike syndicated cartoons in the before- and after-school hours on weekdays. Though the networks continue to adhere to pre-1984 limits of twelve ad minutes an hour on weekdays, 9 1/2 minutes on weekends, a recent study of eight big-city independent stations revealed that all but one were exceeding the old limit during weekday children's programming...
Children's TV, of course, is not an unredeemed junk pile. PBS and cable offer much quality fare. Most of the networks' Saturday-morning shows are gently inoffensive (The Smurfs, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies) and occasionally adventurous (Pee-wee's Playhouse). Some of the wit and imagination of pre-TV animation have even resurfaced this season in CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi...