Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rodding used to be a pretty straightforward hobby. Once you'd mastered manifolds and camshafts, all you had to worry about was how to get the money for your engine parts and the grease off your hands. Then in 1981, Detroit, pressed to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency, started putting something new in their cars: computers. Suddenly, anyone who wanted to fine- tune an engine had to have a degree in data processing...
...this scenario involved George Bush, Kennebunkport, Dan Quayle and Congress, it would seem farfetched even for a satirical farce. Substitute some Russian names, and it becomes a straightforward recitation of facts. Vice President Alexander Rutskoi really did report to the Russian parliament early in October that he had tried a dozen times to reach the vacationing President Boris Yeltsin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi to ask what was to be done about a looming crisis, but failed. In reality as in fantasy, the script was singularly unfunny. As the first snows start to fall and a difficult winter...
Doughnuts, dogs and money. According to Lawrence Garfield, better known as Larry the Liquidator, they are the three things everyone loves in a straightforward, uncomplicated way. Money, of course, has the advantage over the others in that it is fat-free and cannot poop on the living room...
Today there are hundreds of multimedia videodiscs and CDs for sale or in development. Most are fairly straightforward elaborations of products already available as books or on traditional computer disks. But some of them take advantage of the power of the new media to achieve extraordinary results. Among the best are a series of videodiscs from ABC News InterActive that allow users to explore subjects like the AIDS epidemic or the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by roaming though film and video clips culled from ABC's extensive library of news footage. In some cases, these clips are supplemented...
...making it more palatable to the discerning drinker. The appeal of Sharp's is its yeasty, rich flavor, while Heileman's Kingsbury, once the market leader, is somewhat metallic but still very drinkable. Kaliber, an import from Guinness, has a fine, toasty aroma, and O'Doul's has the straightforward and pleasant taste of a regular domestic beer...