Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes a fool of himself on his TV commercials. Her diet-conscious friends drink rum and Tab. A romantic interlude for her consists of watching Rebecca on the Late Show. This is no life for someone who keeps a diary and looks like a new-minted movie star. No wonder she spends a lot of time leafing longingly through the personals column of a New York City tabloid, in particular mooning over a free-floating couple, Susan and Jim, who arrange their assignations, all over the country, by placing ads there. Whatever problems they might have must be more interesting...
...time--any interest in being President. "I've thought about it," he said one recent sunny day in New York. "Sometimes I say, 'Maybe I should give it a shot. It's only four years. It'd be fun, an honor.' People tell me I should run, and I wonder if I should listen." Then he brought himself up short. "A woman wrote me a letter and says, 'You'd probably get killed in office, but you owe it to the country.' I'd probably get killed? What the hell do you mean, I 'owe it to the country...
...crisis prompted depositors across the U.S. to wonder, maybe for the first time, just who insures their money. The large majority of deposit-taking institutions are federally insured--83% of S and Ls, for example. But 30 states, including Massachusetts, Texas and Illinois, permit at least some of their commercial banks, thrift institutions or credit unions to rely on private insurance funds...
...first 35% will go to 13 African countries for immediate relief, with special emphasis on medical aid; an equal portion will be put toward farm and water supply and general agricultural improvement; 20% will be earmarked for "long-term economic development programs"; and the final 10% --at Stevie Wonder's suggestion--will be contributed to relieve hunger and homelessness in the U.S. Says Quincy Jones: "A song is a small price for somebody's life...
Goetz's lawyers called the reopening of the case a "judicial lynching." Says Joseph Kelner: "Mr. Morgenthau has been highly pressured by politicians who see gain in this for themselves. If he has a new witness, you have to wonder why they pop up now." Arguing that there is a tacit conspiracy among officials to convict his client in the court of public opinion, Kelner cites the decision this month to release a brooding confession Goetz made when he surrendered at a Concord, N.H., police station nine days after the shootings. "He's being turned from a crime victim into...