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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressures and restrictions brought to bear on it have surely done so. The whole thrust of Shakespeare's play, after all, is that "lovers and madmen have such seething brains," that lovers, in short, are too full of folly, too much aflame, too rich in their imaginations. Nowadays, often, our problem seems just the opposite. Prudence makes us measure out our hearts with coffee spoons, and discretion is the better part of Valium. Love has always been a messy affair, and that is precisely why it cannot be easily legislated. Make romance a thing for lawyers, and callousness and shame...
Technology, too, serves to make our liaisons more dangerous. Rob Lowe was apparently uncovered by a videotape, common-law suitors are often betrayed by photographs, and, in response to all this, more and more people choose to interface, date or even make love over the phone. If a modern Juliet were to try to reach her lover before feigning her own death, she might well hear, "Hi! This is Romeo! Nobody's here right...
...costs and preserve programs, former CIA Deputy Director Bobby Inman maintains that defense procurement policies must be streamlined. Defense contractors complain, for example, that the Pentagon insists that parts and equipment be built to military specifications, when less costly, commercially produced gear would often be just as good...
...Americans are often angered by what appears to be Mexican complacency in combatting the flow of illegal drugs across the border. How do Mexicans view the U.S. drug problem...
During the negotiations to free the Iran hostages, Sawyer's reports often wound up on the CBS Morning News. "I would sleep all night on two secretarial chairs so I could get up at 4 a.m., stalk the halls and see what I could get," she recalls. Her live exchanges with Charles Kuralt led to her being tapped as the show's co-anchor, and Sawyer made the leap from journeyman correspondent to network star...