Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shares with its readers, as well as its simple, first-person style. 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley Safer habitually packs issues of the magazine whenever he heads off to unfamiliar parts of the globe. Says he: "If it's somewhere you've never been to before, National Geographic can be pure gold -- just to get a sniff of the place...
Strip away the diplomatic jargon and that statement is pure dynamite. Its author? U.S. Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, writing in the influential South African bimonthly Leadership, whose latest issue appeared last week. The U.S. State Department insisted that it was entirely consistent with previously stated U.S. policy condemning the South African practice of racial apartheid. As departmental officials noted, Secretary of State George Shultz in a September speech called for a "universal franchise for all adult South Africans," which by implication assumes eventual black rule. But Perkins' article was nonetheless viewed by some observers as a breakthrough, if only...
...action was quick. The Senior Tutor crushed the party in its infancy (1 p.m.). Those who resisted were Ad Boarded and made to parse Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and get up early enough for breakfast four days...
...Americans are not spendthrifts out of pure whimsy or decadence. Over the past several decades, U.S. consumers have been influenced by fundamental social and economic forces. To begin with, the Viet Nam era bred a mood of pessimism and cynicism that led many young people to live for today rather than save for tomorrow. Next came the inflation of the 1970s, which pushed prices up 87% in one decade. Consumers became accustomed to buying in a hurry because prices were always rising. Even as inflation has cooled off in the 1980s, the manic shopping reflex continues, notes F. Thomas Juster...
...dreams") are the sort of fey selections reliably included on subscription-only albums by chanteuses who play hotel lounges in off- season. Faithfull, however, endows them with real gutter sophistication -- the Boulevard of Broken Dreams never sounded like a mean street before -- and that is the essence of a pure rock-'n'-roll heart...