Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a rough day for Valerie the Valley Girl (Geena Davis), manicurist at the Curl Up and Dye hair salon. Her icky beau Dr. Ted (Charles Rocket) hasn't made love -- to her, anyway -- in two weeks! "At the rate we're having sex," she pouts becomingly, "we may as well be married already." She has discovered Ted in a compromising costume with another woman and responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer...
...make the owl a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may enable the birds, now numbering only about 2,500 pairs, to succeed where environmentalists have failed: it may halt or slow down an insatiable logging industry that has been turning ancient trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes...
...member of the talk- show fraternity. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, he has a Ph.D. in speech communications, and began doing radio talk shows while a college professor in Massachusetts. In 1980 he moved to Miami's WNWS-AM, where his first big on-air campaign helped defeat a proposed rate increase by Southern Bell Telephone...
While the ruling could force firms to give California customers up to $4 billion in rebates and rate cuts, few checks will go out soon. The reason: the court held that insurers may receive exemptions from the rollbacks if they can prove that the new rates would be too low to assure a "fair and reasonable" profit...
...clearest signal yet that the U.S. economy may be heading into the doldrums after a 6 1/2-year expansion, the Government reported last week that the unemployment rate jumped to 5.3% in April, up from 5% the previous month. The hefty increase reflected a surge of 395,000 people into the labor force as the number of jobs fell...