Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair guess that Terry was never air-kissed by Elizabeth Taylor, the butt of jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue, was never a visitor to the set of Golden Girls, and never lectured Hollywood producers about showing safe sex in their programs. Antismoking is a small part of Koop's crusade; AIDS, child abuse, domestic violence, pornography, old people, drunk driving and Baby Doe regulations made Koop one of the most visible officials in Washington. Now at airports people offer to carry his bags...
...fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel Prize in 1962. Both exhilarated and exhausted after finishing the book, Steinbeck wondered whether he would ever write so well again: "That part of my life that made the Grapes is over...
When anyone at Drexel Burnham Lambert talks, the Government may soon be listening. Last week the investment firm said it would submit to unprecedented federal supervision as part of an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of insider trading and stock fraud. The deal will enable Drexel to proceed with a separate settlement of criminal charges, first announced last December, for which the firm will pay $650 million in fines...
Technology alone, however, bears only part of the responsibility for the time famine. All the promises of limitless leisure relied on America's retaining its blinding lead in the world's markets and unfolding prosperity at home. No one quite bargained for the Middle-Class Squeeze, what Paula Rayman, a sociologist at Wellesley College's Stone Center, calls "falling behind while getting ahead." The prices of houses have soared, inflation erodes paychecks, wages are stagnant, and medical and tuition costs continue to skyrocket. So now it can take two paychecks to fund what many imagined was a middle-class life...
...growing number of entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package of hot-dog buns for one of her family picnics. "We charged $20 to deliver 59 cents worth...