Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prow of its pretensions and declared, "Call me masterpiece." Apocalypse Now was fine as long as it accompanied its doomed, questing hero (played by Martin Sheen, Charlie's father) upstream on the River Styx; then it fogged off into fantasyland with Marlon Buddha. Only Company C, a standard-issue war film about recruits betrayed by their incompetent officers, spent much time in a Nam combat zone. But it really resided, with The Green Berets, in the twilight zone of World War II gestures and bromides...
...voice of Baltimore Coach Weeb Ewbank that Johnny Unitas never heeded in the Colt-Giant sudden-death championship game of 1958. Elway completed his 20-yd. pass to Mark Jackson, and another of 5 yds. for the touchdown. In terms a Giant can understand, pro football had a new standard for closing flourishes. No less an authority than Dallas' Tom Landry, New York's defensive coach in that legendary loss 29 years ago, says...
...week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses and government offices, and causing more than 264 deaths. Summing up the chaos, the London Standard proclaimed: TODAY IS CANCELLED...
This is not so much an attack on the United States as an attempt to explain how those 50 who left in December could make the decision they made. Some were people on the fringes, unable to attain the standard of living that lured them here. Some were frustrated artists who, no longer restrained by government, found they were restrained by an inhospitable market that provided no buyers for their work. Some were plain scared and homesick...
...standard contract currently used in many such arrangements does not provide the surrogate mother with many rights, but puts a good number of restraints on her. She agrees to abstain from smoking, alcohol and drugs as well as sexual intercourse during the period around insemination. Most agreements forbid her to abort without consent of the father, though some require it if amniocentesis reveals fetal abnormalities. And while the mothers are screened, though not always with sufficient diligence, the contracting couples often are not. What are the ethical dilemmas of a surrogate mother who delivers her child into a home...