Word: warning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many schools, although only 40% of the team ever get degrees. "It's an unrealistic expectation," says Diana Costello, head academic tutor for the team. If subjected to the same grueling physical workouts, she adds, even "the finest of students would have a difficult time." Costello tries to warn the players to look beyond basketball and takes delight in those who make academic progress...
Food experts warn against a faddish trend to undercooking items, particularly hamburgers, fish and chicken. Poultry should not be pink near the bone. Many cooks are impatient, particularly when it comes to the microwave. Warns Douglas Archer, head of the microbiology division of the FDA's Office of Nutrition and Food Sciences: "If you're told to cook something and let it sit for two minutes, there's a good reason. You're letting the heat from inside the food come out in the form of steam and finish the cooking." Once food is prepared, it should be eaten within...
Still, some observers warn that the moderate reforms fall short of what is needed to overcome the agriculture crisis. A major obstacle to bolder reforms will be fear among farmers that the push toward privatization may be rolled back again. Such inherent caution cannot have eased when Ligachev announced at a press conference that a free-market agriculture system would be adopted only after there is "an abundance of food...
Moreover, doctors warn that even brief exposure to noise levels greater than 115 decibels can result in permanent hearing damage. But boomers turn a deaf ear to such objections. With one sound-off rally scheduled for Austin in two weeks and another on Easter Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla., the air will soon be filled with the sound of cars going boom in the night...
...short-term realist." Now, in an introspective moment, he adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming prohibitively expensive. Instead he pressed ahead, matching the Democratic version in what amounted to a bidding war, betting that...