Word: vacuum
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...deficit will remain a stubborn obstacle to holding down interest rates. "You can't talk of monetary policy in a vacuum without reference to the enormous debt level and to the responsibility of Congress and the President," says Harry Freeman, a senior vice president of Shearson/American Express. "Volcker is being asked to keep interest rates down when he only has part of the action." Congress continues to fail to cut the fiscal 1984 budget deficit below the projected $180 billion. The Senate last week approved funds for the B-1 bomber and chemical-weapons systems. The House passed...
McMullan has been with the Knight (now Knight-Ridder) newspaper chain ever since 1957. When he was assigned to liven up its Washington bureau, his eagerness produced an uneasy rebuke from the bureau chief: "John, you were sent here to fill a vacuum, not overflow it." In 1970 McMullan left to execute a wholesale purge of the chain's newly acquired Philadelphia Inquirer. In three years, McMullan replaced a third of the paper's reporting staff, including virtually every department head. The overhaul was to turn the Inquirer into one of the strongest newspapers...
...emotional messages and exerts a profound effect on behavior. Accordingly, advertisers and manufacturers, who receive information from CAUS, routinely use color psychology to manipulate consumer tastes. Thus, detergent boxes tend to have pure white backgrounds or designs in bold, primary colors to foster an image of cleanliness and strength. Vacuum cleaners for the home are light colored, indicating subtly to women that the machines are light in weight and easily maneuverable; a similar model may appear in a bold, primary color when its intended buyer is a man who wants the machine for heavy garage duty. Brands...
...threaten than to salt his jokes with the rhythm of machismo, carries with it an inner-city demand for respect. Then suddenly his handsome face flashes a good-boy dimple, and out of his mouth comes the laugh that sounds like a happy goose crossed with a stopped-up vacuum cleaner, and the audience cracks up. Very bad Eddie, very good Eddie, his fans love them both. More than any other entertainer in recent memory, Eddie Murphy just plain makes people feel good...
...gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar system itself, which is expected to expire in another 5 billion years when the sun swells into a red giant and engulfs the inner planets...