Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans don't take books that seriously anymore. Perhaps Russians don't either: their popular culture has begun to succumb to television. In America one rarely encounters the mystical book worship. Everything in the West today seems infinitely replicable, by computer, microfilm, somehow, so that if a book chances to burn up, there must be thousands more where that came from. If anything, there seem to be entirely too many words and numbers in circulation, too many sinister records of everything crammed into the microchips of FBI, IRS, police departments. Too many books altogether, perhaps. The glut of books subverts...
...become an industry-wide trend toward throttling back the giveaways. Last week the 4.5 million members of United's Mileage Plus program began receiving letters advising that the airline will launch a "new and improved" plan. In fact, the changes will impose much tighter restrictions on the most popular freebie trips...
...record would hardly delight Jackson or other liberals. So the hot name on the Veep gossip circuit last week was that of Senator Bob Graham, former Governor of Florida and a Dukakis supporter known to be more interested in the assignment than Nunn is. An affable, energetic campaigner highly popular at home, Graham could at least reel in the South's second largest state, one that is essential to building an electoral-vote majority. Other prospects are slipping into speculation as well...
Like a growing number of his countrymen, Duarte blames the Sandinistas' prefabricated revolutionary socialism for many of Nicaragua's economic woes. He turns to baseball, a game made popular in Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the early part of the century, to explain what he feels needs to happen. "What do you do when a pitcher is getting hit out of the ball park?" he asks. "You change him and try someone with a fresh...
Food has been the most popular ammunition inyears past, but this year because the Walk forHunger will be taking place alongside the race,spectators are being asked not to throw "freshfood," as that "just wouldn't be in good taste,"according to official Undergraduate Councilguidelines...