Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Society encourages spending. Buying is a national pastime. Catalogs jam % mailboxes, goodies are hawked on television shopping channels. And credit is sinfully easy. Declares Damon: "Credit cards are to a shopaholic what a bottle is to an alcoholic." But buying provides only a short-lived high. Splurgers are assailed by anxiety and guilt, sometimes as the latest acquisitions are being rung up. Even as she handed her credit card to a salesclerk, recalls Judith, 40, a New York advertising executive, "my stomach would churn in knots." At home, items often go straight to the closet in their boxes, and clothing...
When he took the podium at Geneva's Palais des Nations on Tuesday, the unpredictable P.L.O. chairman again stopped maddeningly short of uttering the precious words. Instead of saying, "I recognize Israel's right to exist," Arafat declared, "The P.L.O. will seek a comprehensive settlement among the parties concerned in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the state of Palestine, Israel and other neighbors." While he "condemned" terrorism "in all its forms," he did not "renounce" it, and he saluted "those sitting before me in this hall" who had fought in "national liberation movements...
...many people, the AIDS epidemic is a grim waiting game: they wait for the fateful diagnosis, wait for help, wait for a cure. Now at least part of the delay may be cut short. Cambridge BioScience of Worcester, Mass., announced last week that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a blood test that will indicate in five minutes whether a person is infected with the AIDS virus, vs. several hours for the standard laboratory measure. The BioScience product, which will not be sold to consumers, is expected to help time-pressed doctors...
TWINS. Danny DeVito. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Twins! Fortunately, this comedy boasts more than tall-guy, short-guy jokes. It has an easy warmth that never slops over into sentiment...
...unique challenge to translate something that is essentially a print story into a visual and dynamic television presentation," says David McGowan, TIME's special-projects director, who assisted CNN's effort. "CNN's life was not made any easier by the fact that it had to operate on such short notice...