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I hope Hart and Torricelli's efforts won't be watered down into a wimpy voluntary national service along the lines of the Peace Corps. That would defeat the purpose of a national service in the first place. Like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would be very popular in...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Mom's Demands and the Government's | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Take, for example, the wimpy animals. There are some major colleges that have football teams out there with nicknames like the Blue Hens (Delaware), the Gophers (Minnesota), the Ducks (Oregon) and the Beavers (Oregon State).

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: The Name Game | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

This past summer, though, has seen the dawn of utterly humorless, downright wimpy police approaches to enforcing the speed limit.

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

Young crowds respond to limpid, sweet liquid mixtures. Singles now meet in health spas, but many still play the dating game in bars and clubs. A list of their favorite drinks reads like a dessert menu from the 1950s. At 104 TGI Friday's around the country, for instance, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Aural Fixations | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

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