Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether his congressional colleagues regard him as a hero or a hothead -- there seem to be few opinions in between -- Newt Gingrich, 45, accomplished a feat last week that not many of them would ever have ever predicted. By a vote of 87 to 85, he was elected minority whip, the G.O.P.'s second-ranking leadership post, by House Republicans. Gingrich succeeds Wyoming's Richard Cheney, who left the House to become Secretary of Defense...
...anger came first, but it is not an easy emotion for playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Her natural instinct is to charm, to disarm, to retreat from harm. The nervous giggles, the wispy, high-pitched voice, the ingratiating brown eyes and perhaps even the plump figure all seem protective camouflage. For Wasserstein, self-mocking humor has always been the first line of defense against both the judgment of others and her enveloping Jewish family, which cannot understand why a nice girl like Wendy is not married with children at 38. Even her closest friends sometimes find her hard to take entirely seriously...
...Many Americans rely on restaurant or supermarket salad bars -- places where the food is left to sit for many hours and handled by many people, often in slovenly fashion. Notes dietitian Bettye Nowlin of the American Dietetic Association: "I've seen people at take-out stores who don't seem to have a problem sneezing on food and then offering...
...labels of food packages or how closely they scan the newspapers for reports of pesticide scares, they can never be 100% sure that what they eat and drink is 100% safe. Such a guarantee has never existed and never will. Nonetheless, the odds of surviving the daily chemical feast seem pretty good. If food and water were as dangerous as some people think, a lot more of us would be getting sick. U.S. food and water supplies have undeniable problems that need increased attention from the Government and consumers. Even so, the current climate of panic and paranoia...
...question is easier to answer: no one knows how far is too far, certainly not with any precision, perhaps not even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...