Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bold signs direct customers to the "surfin" department, and the company motto, also in English, is pure yuppie: "We make sure you're a winner." Says Isao Iwase, managing director of Oshman's in Tokyo: "The comfortable American life-style is being more widely accepted these days." With fall in the air, American baseball gear has given way to N.F.L. hats and jackets...
Critics of Harvey Milk suggest that children with special needs, particularly homosexuals, should not be segregated but should learn to accept themselves in the context of a larger society. "Harvey Milk might be a good intermediate approach, but I'm not sure these students learn to cope in a school that is exclusively homosexual," says Susan Forman, professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina...
...oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in which a boy and a dog stumble onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends in ambiguity: the reader never knows for sure whether the magician turns Fritz, the signature bull terrier that has appeared in all of Van Allsburg's subsequent books, into a duck...
...philosophy was needed, the sort of disruptive and often expensive change that works only if the commitment starts at the top. In companies where impressive quality gains have been made -- Ford, Hewlett-Packard, 3M, Corning Glass, Apple, Motorola and Rubbermaid -- the chief executive lays down the rules and makes sure they are followed. Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody on the plant floor has the authority to shut down...
While this and earlier studies agree on the health benefits of regular, moderate exercise, no one is sure of the physiological mechanisms involved. It may be that exercise increases coronary blood flow, decreases clotting or both, which would limit the blood-vessel blockages that cause cardiovascular problems. And some scientists speculate that exercise increases bowel motility, a factor in avoiding colon cancer. Those questions may be answered in part by the next phase of the investigation, which is expected to include more than 40,000 people. Such speculations are literally academic, though. For the average man or woman, the message...