Word: america
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the red light of the television camera winks on, most people also light up, becoming warmer and more animated than their everyday selves. But when Faye Wattleton, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sits before the camera's eye -- something she is doing with ever greater frequency these days -- she turns chillier and more controlled than her already well-disciplined self. Her speech becomes stricter, her smile tighter. Wattleton monitors herself closer than the camera does, for she is intent on being nothing less than perfect, as though a single dangling modifier or wayward statistic will bring...
...biggest chill has come over raiders who once promised to run companies more efficiently than did the bosses they ousted. Largely self-made men who flaunted their contempt for corporate America, many raiders have had a rude comeuppance. Some have suffered much greater setbacks than others, but few are flying as high as they did in their heydays. Among the consequences of their deals...
...Antipodal Acquisitor. In 1983, in the midst of his glory days, Alan Bond's sloop Australia II captured the America's Cup. In the same determined manner, Bond, 51, has run up more than $3 billion of debt in recent years while capturing a global empire of properties ranging from half of Chile's telephone system to Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing. To lighten his crushing debt load, Bond is now shedding properties almost as fast as he acquired them...
...seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today's franchised glitz. Says Arthur Krim of the Society for Commercial Archeology, which studies America's commercial history: "To look at a diner or gas station was a link to a smaller, more friendly world." But not necessarily a more visually pleasing...
...rebel officers "are not Noriegas," says Stanley Karnow, author of In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. "They are not thugs by any means." While only about 2,000 rebel troops were involved in the rebellion, several other units declared themselves neutral in the conflict out of respect for Honasan's cause. Even if Gringo's latest attempt to seize power is thwarted, says Karnow, "the symptoms of malaise within the military will still be there...