Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members have either headed home or gone out to campaign for President, the special hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was packed. The object of interest: a young bureaucrat who had finally been freed from his drab office on the second floor of the C-ring of the Pentagon in order to present his maverick assessment of the underlying problems of defense planning and weapons procurement...
Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating. If one came of age in 1938, then Artie Shaw's version of Begin the Beguine might be the signature he went by, the sound that would date his soul like the exact ring on a redwood. A few years earlier, it might have been Hoagy Carmichael doing Stardust...
...argument has a nice "free market" ring to it, and, in view of the impressive conservation gains of the past decade, seems to have some merit. Efficiency of industrial energy use, measured by real Gross National Product produced per unit of energy consumed, has jumped nearly 40 percent since 1974. Home insulation, smaller cars, and other conservation measures have cut consumer energy use dramatically; overall, America's energy consumption has declined by 0.5 percent per year since...
...exchange had an all too familiar ring. Once again a small but vocal number of U.S. legislators were expressing their skepticism at Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador. Once again the Administration was insisting that its combination of support for electoral democracy, social reform and human rights, together with sizable doses of military aid ($26 million for fiscal 1983, $86 million proposed for 1984), was the only solution that could prevent a Communist takeover...
Before it became a television series, M*A*S*H had been a mildly successful novel (1968) by Richard Hooker and a surprise hit movie (1970) directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly...