Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fairy tales or the mythic wellsprings behind children's play, the marketers have long since phased out the elves in Santa's workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according to the ledgers of the Wall Street Journal, "the average household bought 30 gifts and spent $315." In 1985 $12 billion worth of toys were sold at retail, 60% of them in the three months before...
THIS IS SOBERING stuff. Instead of SDI being the benificent shield Reagan paints it to be, it would simply elevate the arms race to a new level of terror. As late as November Reagan still claimed that SDI is, "strictly a non-nuclear defense." However, Robert English of the Committee for National Security has predicted that if research showed the use of SDI for offensive purposes, efforts would be directed toward that goal...
Freshman year we'd get the cheap stuff--quart bottles of Magnum or Olde English 800--and sometimes we'd splurge for a shorty (12-pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...
...shopping cart not only with beer, but with other household essentials--kitty litter, laundry detergent and the like. If the clerk asked for ID, we'd say defiantly, "Well, if you're not going to sell us beer, we're not going to buy any of this other stuff either! As a matter of fact we're never going to shop here again." It seldom worked...
...stuff to tell me," Peter Chiarelli says. "I can never please...