Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that George Bush, the heir-elect, looks out over the nation and raptly muses about a thousand points of light, savoring the phrase, if not quite understanding it. He did not add that the lights are shining into corners that have grown bleak and dim in the past eight years. And he got the numbers wrong. Out of sight of the Rose Garden, something like 80 million individuals are doing whatever they can to address the problems that politicians are fleeing...
...American came into vogue during the 1970s, but African American is just beginning to catch on. Former tennis champion Arthur Ashe has written a new three-volume book, A Hard Road to Glory, that is subtitled A History of the African-American Athlete. While some people may find the phrase too much of a mouthful, it does have what Jackson calls "cultural integrity," conveying the dual heritage of blacks born and bred in this country...
...Soviet environmental disaster has been a long time in the making. Beginning in the days of Stalin, ecological concerns were shunted aside in the rush toward industrialization. Valovaya produktsiya, a phrase that translates into "gross output" and is abbreviated as val, was at the heart of the problem. Industry bureaucrats have long been evaluated -- and rewarded -- only in terms of gross output. Rivers were fouled and forests stripped in the rush to transform raw materials into material wealth. No premium was placed on efficiency, and no environmental concerns restrained val. Trucks in Siberia, for example, are still left running every...
...rummaging through huge pizzas and plunging down a sundae slide into a vat of whipped cream. Underage comics on You Can't Do That on Television assault one another with gag lines rather than food, but get drenched with a bucket of green slime every time they utter the phrase "I don't know." The action on Kids' Court is only slightly more decorous. On one show a youngster stood accused of taking his brother's water pistol and hiding it in the oven, where it melted. To help re-create the crime, the TV defendant grabbed a replica...
What one aide, echoing the President-elect's characteristic phrase, calls the "balance thing" has bedeviled Bush for a fortnight. Last week he addressed it by including two men with no previous Cabinet experience and a woman among five appointments...