Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final hurdle the measure will have to clear. The Senate bill must still survive a conference to reconcile it with a version passed by the House. Though both plans aim to cut tax rates through closing loopholes, the devil is in the details; the conferees are likely to fall prey to much back-room maneuvering over breaks for various special interests. "The game ain't over till it's over," warns Bradley. But even opponents of tax reform expect to see a bill on the President's desk for signing by Labor...
Smaller plastic items are frequently mistaken for prey by turtles and birds, often with fatal results. Leatherback turtles, which feast on jellyfish, are particularly attracted to plastic bags. Says University of Florida Zoologist Archie Carr, an authority on sea turtles: "Any kind of film or semitranslucent material appears to look like jellyfish to them." Trouble is, the bags--or other plastic items like golf tees--can form a lethal plug in the turtle's digestive tract...
...Tokyo's Dentsu (1985 billings: $3.62 billion) and London's Saatchi & Saatchi ($3 billion). Perhaps the most ravenous of all the advertising firms, Saatchi & Saatchi took over twelve companies last year. Flush with $600 million raised through a stock offering, Brothers Charles and Maurice Saatchi are prowling for more prey and are determined to build the world's largest agency. Doyle Dane Bernbach turned down a Saatchi offer before deciding to merge with BBDO and Needham; so far, Ted Bates has also ducked Saatchi's advances. Says Abbott Jones, president of the Chicago-based Foote, Cone & Belding agency ($1.9 billion...
High expectations aside, Smooth Talk is an enormously frustrating, painful movie to watch. Which is not to say that it is not ultimately likeable. Concerning itself with human flaws and the mistakes in judgment to which we've all fallen prey, we are tempted either to meld into the cellulose and stop the characters from acting as they do, or to walk out of the theatre in order to avoid bearing witness to such fatalistically dumb behavior. In summary, this is a movie that hits home very hard...
Speaking on the question, "Why is self-denial unpopular today?" Dr. Joseph Ton last night told an audience of 100 in the Science Center that "society has fallen prey to the deception that independence is the way to self-fulfillment...