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...this Retro can give a girl a headache. But before you get nostalgic about the future, remember that every morning you have the potential to broadcast something. No matter which decade you pilfer, you are announcing "I am of the now." You are playing a cosmic game of Whack-a-Mole...

Author: By Rebecca R. Kirshner, | Title: The Fashion Muse | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

More fundamental still is the question of whether the budget really should be balanced every year. A sudden, deep recession, for example, could throw any budget out of whack by reducing tax collections and increasing spending for unemployment benefits. Restoring balance would require a big tax increase, a sharp cut in spending or both -- and that would make the recession much worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Going for the Easy Part | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...obesity may be just as dangerous in the long run. The growing prevalence of both extremes suggests America is struggling with something akin to a national eating disorder. "The society is dysfunctional," says Robin Wes, founder of the Little Gym fitness centers for children. "We are eating out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Times What health craze? | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Kasich, though, seemed undaunted. Let Clinton talk about killing one department, he said. He had plans to zero out four and eviscerate a fifth. (He declined to allow those departments to be named.) Kasich also figured he could whack more than one-fifth of the foreign-aid budget during the next five years without touching Israel's share, and cut another $26 billion from food stamps in the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man with a Vision | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...Ladies, shall we whack the bush...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: On the Verge of Bursting the Corset Stays | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

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