Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fallows' suggestion for reducing the federal budget deficit--reducing social security payments to the middle-class elderly--would simply remove middle class support from what has been the most popular of federal programs. The change would be so politically suicidal that it is hard to imagine an elected official ever sponsoring such legislation...
...took all the popular courses. I was too cool to hang out with first-year students, and after a week I never ate in the Union, and never attended first-year parties...
...meaning that you don't have to trek down the hall in a towel and shower behind a see-through map-of-the-world curtain while various individuals wander in and out. One of my friends was privileged to have this experience, and has informed me that contrary to popular belief, Asia is not big enough to cover your body from shoulders to knees...
Except for a couple of the oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the genre's single most enduring theme, warfare in space; Donkey Kong, whose endearingly quirky scenario had a little man racing up a skyscraper to rescue a girl from the clutches of a giant gorilla; and Tron, the only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired...
...venture between historic enemies takes place in one of the earth's chillier, less hospitable locales. And when a huge net full of an incoming catch drops the body of Zina Patiashvili onto the deck of the Polar Star, the whole enterprise becomes icier still. Patiashvili had been a popular member of the Polar Star work force, dishing up food in the mess and making herself available to a goodly number of male comrades on board and, so rumor has it, to more than a few visiting American fishermen...