Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike such drugs as barbiturates and opiates, which affect the nervous system, alcohol can attack virtually any of the body's cells. It can cause stunted growth, distorted faces, poor eyesight, learning disabilities and hyperactivity. In the recently published book The Broken Cord (Harper & Row; $18.95), author Michael Dorris tells the heartbreaking story of his adopted son Adam, whose Sioux parents died of alcohol abuse. Adam was institutionalized and diagnosed as retarded before he turned three. At five, he still wore diapers, could not count consecutively or even identify colors. "Adam's birthdays are reminders for me," writes Dorris...
...trick to get Universal Widget to underwrite a Renoir show, or one of those PBS nature series (six hours of granola TV, with bugs copulating to Mozart). But try them with newer, more controversial, or more demanding work and watch the faces in the boardroom drop. Corporate is nervous money; it needs the NEA for reassurance as a Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Our problem, despite conservative rant, is too little Government support for the arts, not too much. Even if we had a ministry of culture to parade the roosters, we would still need the NEA to look after...
...banning unpatriotic, irreligious or sexually explicit expressions on campus -- the people framing Wisconsin-type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...
...delicate challenge was to encourage the faltering nations to embrace democratic reforms and move toward a free-market economy mostly on their own, without provoking another era of repression from nervous party bosses. Bush offered only $115 million to Poland, a pittance when measured against Poland's $39 billion international debt, and $25 million to Hungary. But part of the President's traveling plan was not to overpromise and energize the dissidents, who might then make more demands...
...Like nervous bachelors worried they may never find a mate, many of the Big Eight accounting firms in the U.S. have begun stampeding to the altar. Last week Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross announced that they had agreed to join forces as Deloitte & Touche (total revenues: $3.9 billion). Earlier the same day Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse revealed that they too have begun negotiating a merger that would produce a $4.9 billion firm. The announcements followed a decision by Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young in June to consummate their own $4.3 billion corporate marriage...