Word: ten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sailboarders, surfers and sailors know the sea can be dangerous, and yet they often sacrifice safety for style. After all, a bulky life preserver would ruin the look of a hang ten. In a new product called Aqua Buoy, which hides a flotation device in a wristband, function combines with form...
...Cannes '88 presented a picture of world cinema as seen through a cynic's squint, three of the most acclaimed films gave a child's-eye view of the struggle for survival and identity. Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! traces the odyssey of a ten-year-old boy abandoned in India's fetid slums. This artful heartbreaker (which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature) is made with passion and tact -- an expose that also, eloquently, reveals...
...population. In some parts of the country, they complain that they outnumber men by as much as 6 to 1. The imbalance helped give rise in 1944 to Operation Birthrate, under which women who had seven children were awarded the Glory of Motherhood medal. Bearing ten or more children earned the title of Mother Heroine...
With varying degrees of success and sincerity, Gorbachev for his own reasons has made progress on all these fronts. He pushed through the Central Committee last week a set of reforms that would limit the terms of most officials (though not including himself) to ten years and institute secret ballots for legislative and party posts. His tentative steps in favor of private enterprise even provoked the Soviet Union's first tax revolt, when its national parliament showed for once that it could be more than a rubber stamp. That could make perestroika all the more endearing to Americans, who have...
...actual joint expedition to Mars. At best, they point out, the success of any joint mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher Nicholas Johnson. "But there is great uncertainty about the political environment...