Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laissez-faire habits are hard to break. Modern L.A. has known only helter-skelter growth. "There's a vacuum of leadership," says Ted Bruinsma, president...
...Ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte dismisses the notion that Alvarez really rules Honduras, calling it "a myth that serves the stereotypical view of Central Americans." Still, the return to civilian rule has left a tempting power vacuum. Business and labor leaders know that if they want anything done quickly they must go to the general because problems referred to the President's office all too often become entangled in bureaucratic red tape. The Honduran Congress, which was restored in 1982, has been timid about exercising its constitutional powers, although the recent U.S.-Honduran military talks may prompt reluctant legislators...
...Africa. Britain, whose withdrawal would be particularly important, simply cannot afford divestiture. And government and business leaders of other European countries, although not economically constrained, told the Rockefeller commission unequivocally that divestiture was out of the question. If the United States were to pull out one its own, the vacuum would probably be filled by foreign and South African firms eager to expand their market shares...
Results like these have created an enormous demand for stress-management programs, and a small army of entrepreneurs has rushed in to fill the vacuum. New York Telephone's Collings reports getting "three or four offers a week to conduct relaxation programs." Not all of them are bargains. In an effort to bring some order to the booming and chaotic field, Rosch (whose respected American Institute of Stress is nonprofit) is establishing a data bank with information on the cost and effectiveness of stress-management programs. The result, he hopes, will be "a kind...
...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...