Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take off next summer for Mars. When they reach the Red Planet some 200 days and 118 million miles later, they will orbit for a time, taking data on solar physics. The first Phobos will match orbits with the moon for which it is named, a chunk of rock about 14 miles across believed by many astronomers to be an asteroid captured by Mars' gravity. The other will be a backup...
...huge credit lines at high interest rates. Potentially the most dangerous new device is the home-equity loan. Homeowners who borrow too heavily could lose their houses if a recession left them out of a job and unable to make payments. "The real irony will be if everyone's Rock of Gibraltar asset turns out to be a house of cards," says John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
Those television-network correspondents who cover the White House are able and competitive men. But with one foot in show business and the other in journalism, they must perform a difficult straddle. The question in Washington is whether they are becoming more like rock stars than reporters -- the Mick Jaggers of journalism, so highly paid, so powerful and self-important that they feel no personal constraints. Indeed, it sometimes seems that the more bizarre their behavior, the greater their fame and audience...
...That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Some 400 hungry guests joined Shore to gorge on 300 lbs. of chicken in plain, Cajun or smoky barbecue flavors -- the last being an almost inedible, acridly bittersweet and sticky mass. The clear plastic-sealed chickens and chicken parts are being introduced in the mid-Atlantic states and Memphis...
Japanese style? Japan is all about aesthetic discipline and refinement: it is a tidy place where ordinary buildings are Zen compositions, where cities fit together as ingeniously as a GoBot, a place where restraint and respect for tradition (rock gardens, ikebana, interior space denominated in tatami mats) come naturally, where advertising aspires to art, where even the landscape seems well designed...