Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers spurious opinions on contras and condoms. Junk food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations...
...about 9% in January to nearly 12% by Black Monday, Oct. 19. Since the stock-market crash, mortgage rates have dipped to just below 11%, but that does not guarantee a quick recovery in the housing market. One reason, aside from the fact that many potential customers suffered big paper losses in the market meltdown: skittish home buyers may wait to see if a recession starts, and mortgage rates go down further, before deciding whether to go after their dream house...
...House Republicans and Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and James McClure, insists that the majority's conclusions were "hysterical" and that the President and his staff made "mistakes in judgment, and nothing more." Republican Senator Warren Rudman, who agreed with the majority, dismissed the highly partisan minority paper as "pathetic." Indeed, the profiteering, shredding of documents and widespread lying, and a secret policy that eroded the President's credibility while accomplishing none of its objectives, clearly was something more than a mere matter of poor judgment...
...proposed by the Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...
Morris said he welcomes the competition from the Rhode Island paper. "Competition is healthy," he said. "In the past it's never affected our ability to grow...