Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast with those kinds of life-situations where people are given not much choice. How about arranged marriages? There may be more dissatisfaction with the lack of options but at least, some would argue, young people have less anxiety about personal responsibility for a life-choice. Well, I would prefer to see students be anxious--but able to choose...
...comes across as too earnest, too demure and too tragically trapped to belong in a caper novel. But still you want to laugh and cheer when the plucky stripper finally gets the upper hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...
...Part of the political problem is that there is little consensus either in Congress or among the public about the "something" that should be done with health care. Lawmakers are splintered among liberals who want a government- run, Canadian-style single-payer system; conservatives who prefer minimalist reforms to the insurance market; and those in the middle who support various versions of managed competition...
Such a network and its affiliated stations would provide a worldwide outlet for Murdoch's Fox Broadcasting television programs and his 20th Century Fox films, which include a library of more than 2,000 titles ranging from All About Eve and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to the Star Wars trilogy and Home Alone. The satellite system would also help Murdoch, whose Fox Network is planning to launch a hip cable channel called FX next year, muscle his way into what he sees as the entrenched world of American cable TV, dominated by operators like Denver-based Tele-Communications Inc. and Time...
...Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving...