Word: ten
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Bush promises to be different. Although he adopted the Reagan method during the campaign, stage-managing his every appearance and sequestering himself from the press, he held more news conferences in the ten weeks following the election than Reagan did in his last two years in office. "I think you will see him act as President very much as he has been in the last few weeks," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater...
ETHICS IN AMERICA (PBS, starting Jan. 31, 10 p.m. on most stations). What is an individual's responsibility to the homeless? How far can lawyers go in defending a client? These and other knotty questions will be probed in a ten- week series of free-form debates, introduced by Fred Friendly...
Eager to curb Viet Nam's expansive military, China promptly invited First Deputy Foreign Minister Dinh Nho Liem to Beijing last week for the highest- level discussions between the two nations in ten years. Liem presumably asked for assurances that China would reduce aid to the rebels as part of a political settlement...
...Ten years ago, there weren't that many people we could borrow money from," notes Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, a leading international economist. "We were reluctant to run deficits out of fear of creating sky-high inflation. Now there is a global bank-teller window that is open 24 hours a day, and we've been one of the most frequent customers." Sachs warns, however, that the bender cannot last. "We're faking it," he says. "Our living standard isn't being maintained by higher productivity or wages. It's maintained by foreign capital...
...Spain is in fashion." And now the 37-year-old man from La Mancha is world cinema's flavor of the month. His latest film, the relatively benign Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, is a solid international hit. The comedy has earned $2.5 million in just ten weeks of limited U.S. release, and threatens to become a breakout foreign hit like La Cage aux Folles...