Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Borrowing has become so easy, however, that it can take great willpower to resist. Perhaps the biggest lures are the credit cards that companies are so eager to hand out. "We've got this frenzy of gold MasterCard and gold Visa card offers in the mail during the past two months," says Cynthia Barnes, 28, a computer engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in suburban Chicago. "We got three of them in one day last week." The proliferation of plastic astonishes even bankers. Says John Godfrey, senior vice president and chief economist of Jacksonville-based Barnett Banks of Florida...
...sound is as pure and compelling as a siren song, and consumers seem powerless to resist. They have been snapping up compact disk players, which reproduce music with near perfection, at a rate that is overwhelming both retailers and manufacturers. Annual sales of the newest high-tech wonder, which came on the U.S. market in 1983, should reach 1 million next year. That will make the CD player the fastest-selling machine in home-electronics history. The videocassette recorder took six years (from 1975 to 1981) to reach the same milestone. "We're selling every single...
...such caveats should be applied to Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl...
News organizations should resist the impulse to comply with media events like the current crisis. That's not a call for censorship, and it's not an argument for silence. It's a matter of moderation...
...them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...