Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handle finances. "In traditional marriages, money was family income no matter who brought it in," says Psychiatrist Clifford Sager of New York. "Now each wants to hold on to his or her own. That's not bad as long as a reasonable percentage is put into a common pot, but often you get these cute arrangements where the man's money goes on the household and the woman's on vacations...
...everybody knows, smoking pot creates dry mouth. Therefore, what better way to relieve it than by having another beer? Perhaps if beer was prohibited, less of both would be abused...
Kampuchea, formerly known as Cambodia, came under the control of a Communist group, the Khmer Rouge, in 1975 after a five-year civil war. Their leader, Pol Pot, turned the country into a charnel house by directing a murderous drive to eliminate his opponents. Some 2 million people were killed. Three years later Vietnamese forces, backed by the Soviet Union, swept through the country, setting up a puppet government that both the U.S. and the U.N. refuse to recognize. In addition to the Khmer Rouge, whose 35,000 guerrillas are supported by China, the armed opposition to the current regime...
...lowered U.S. prices about 25% on some of its fine writing instruments. Its handmade black lacquer pen went from $160 to $125. By discounting at a time when few other importers are doing so, the company hopes to boost its U.S. market share. Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco's chic pot-and- pan retailer, has marked down its French-made copper cookware...
Kampuchea offers a more extreme example. The anti-Vietnamese (hence anti- Soviet) resistance there includes the Khmer Rouge forces of Pol Pot, the deposed tyrant of that benighted country. He might be a pawn on the international chessboard; but, having presided over the murder of as many as 2 million of his own countrymen, he can hardly be called a freedom fighter...