Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three bears, it certainly is comforting to consider that one of these candidates will actually emerge from the land of make-believe and become a real flesh and blood president. But still we yearn, it appears hopelessly, for candidates with firm chins already in place, and we spend our time shaking fists at the political gods for sending us fairy tale candidates. Being presidential has become the chief issue of the 1988 campaign...
...phrases like "I hope I die before I get old" we have a slew of post-30 "artists" spewing out still more songs featuring permutations of the rhyme "fire" and "desire." But they're not the worst. Rock 'n' rollers don't have a pension plan; once they spend their money on drugs, they have to go out and earn some more, and even aging pop icons have the right to work...
...that has survived the holocaust, find themselves alone in the vasty deep. But wait. Lurking beneath the waves is a Soviet nuclear submarine that has also escaped harm. Will the two vessels 1) blast each other with their remaining missiles, 2) join forces to begin civilization anew or 3) spend 600- odd pages stalking each other while they try to decide...
...taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes, she was so upset she never wore them. And nagging twinges persist. "I still rationalize buying a $3,000 set of sheets," she says. "Well, shoot, why not? You spend a third of your life in bed, and they last." The sheer social inequity of their gilded circumstances gnaws away at some. Declares Paul Haible of San Francisco, who inherited $1 million: "I'm still confronted with people sleeping in the streets. Money may filter that...
...also has a partner -- that handsome chap Grinkov, who tossed Gordeeva so effortlessly around the rink. Twinned by Moscow's Central Army Sports Club six years ago, neither has ever had another partner. Yet they spend little time together off the ice. Grinkov is 21, and his tastes run to books and ice hockey, while Gordeeva likes to collect toys, sew and surprise her teammates with batches of home-baked cookies. "We just practice together," says Grinkov. Romantics can take heart that perhaps it is just the age difference. Gordeeva is, after all, only 16. With her wide-eyed fawn...