Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City at midweek, but many prominent American Jews remained troubled. California Industrialist Max Palevsky called the Beirut raid "appalling,", and added, "Begin's terrorism is as bad as that of the P.L.O. We just can't tolerate that kind of behavior from anybody." Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and a member of the national board of the American Jewish Committee: "Never has the anti-Begin sentiment been as strong as it is right now among the American-Jewish community. And Begin is making it tough on Reagan, who wants to help...
...aims a pistol between her calipered legs. While Boston did not go so far as to ban the poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually put a pair of shorts on the leggy lady. Amidst the furor, three models who had posed for the poster went out on their limbs claiming fame. Photographer Morgan Kane ended all speculation with the announcement that the legwork was the product of Joyce Bartle...
...have been uninspiring, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Calvin Klein not withstanding, but they did spawn two social phenomena likely to ripple through the 1980's and beyond. The first is a spreading fear that the human race has brought on its imminent destruction--thanks to (pick one) environmental disruption, the baseball strike, nuclear holocaust, or over-population. Doomsayers include the gloomy Limits to Growth study (on population), former President Jimmy Carter (on energy) and futurologist Herbert W. Armstrong, who once said 'all the prophesies have been fulfilled.' They have called for varying degrees of repentance and reform, to delay...
...called tamoxifen supplemented an established two-drug regimen known as PF (L-phenylalanine mustard and 5-fluorouracil). The effects were most striking in postmenopausal women, a group that in the past did not seem to benefit from chemotherapy. Says the study chairman, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh: "In women over 50 years old with multiple lymph node involvement, 45% will have a reoccurrence of disease within two years if there is no postoperative treatment. With PF we were able to cut that down to 30%. When we added tamoxifen, it went down to 5%." Tamoxifen...
...reason: though generous in terms of the stock's market value on Wall Street, the offer amounted to only about half of the company's actual net worth. Among other assets, Conoco owns the U.S.'s No. 2 coal producer, Consolidation Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and is a major North Sea oil producer...