Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard Windham Hill's silky sound as yuppie Muzak, but young professionals cannot get enough of it. Sales reached $20 million last year, up 230% from 1983. Ackerman now chums with Apple Computer Chairman Steven Jobs and gives lectures on his success at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business...
Specifically, the Reagan proposal would restrict eligibility for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL's) to those students whose families earn less than $32,500 per year, without any other regard for financial need. For families with more than one student in college or with several dependents, the arbitrary limit is insensitive and unjust. Further, funds from Pell Grants, College Work Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and National Direct Student Loans could be restricts, to families that earn less than $25,000. Under these limits, one million fewer American students would be eligible for GSL while 800,000 fewer would receive Pell...
...Obesity is a killer. It is a killer just as smoking is," says Dr. Jules Hirsch, chairman of a 14-member panel of doctors and nutritionists assembled last week by the National Institutes of Health. Hirsch warns that the public tends to regard obesity as "something more involved with appearance than with health." But his panel, after reviewing mountains of research, concluded that being overweight presents "a very pervasive health hazard in many systems of the body...
...summit of world leaders in Cancun, Mexico. The Saudis feel that Israel is currently vulnerable, and thus more susceptible than usual to U.S. pressures for a settlement, on two counts: its economy has faltered badly, and Reagan's re-election has temporarily reduced the clout of what the Saudis regard as an overpowering Israeli lobby. "The Palestinian question . . . is the cause of instability and turmoil in the region," Fahd declared. "I hope, Mr. President, that your Administration will support the just cause of the Palestinian people...
...claimed that he had not made his final decision until the start of the press conference. But the press agency TASS began reporting his action even before he spoke, and suspicion mounted that the Soviets had acted to protect their large investment in a status symbol they regard as a more suitable cultural ambassador at large than the youthful, half-Armenian, half-Jewish Kasparov. As David Spanier, British author of Total Chess, put it, Karpov is the ideal Soviet champion, "a very Russian Russian who follows the party line...