Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like James Bond, Ferris (Matthew Broderick), who pretends to be sick from high school in order to go escapading with friends in Chicago, uses devilish charm, outlandish technology and incredibly good luck, to escape being caught by a school administrator. Like Woody Allen, Ferris soliloquizes into the camera...
WASHINGTON--The Food and Drug Administration plans to give the food industry a chance to make previously forbidden health claims for food on supermarket shelves, with the warning that if claims become outlandish, "we will come down on you--hard...
...Outlandish or unsupportable health claims would lead at the very least to regulatory action against individual offenders, and widespread abuse could lead to a return to a flat ban, FDA Deputy Commissioner John A. Norris said...
...dome, trench-coated TV stars, champagne and prime television time. When Les Brown's annual State of the World report was launched one morning last week, the stage props included a glass of grapefruit juice, a bowl of All Bran and a banana, a worn corduroy suit with an outlandish bow tie, and a solitary walk on snow- soaked Hush Puppies down Washington's 19th Street to the offices of Worldwatch Institute. Nary a TV anchorman found his way to the proceedings...
...interest rates and spur growth. But some leading economists castigated the budget-balancing bill in the most scathing terms imaginable. "It is," said Walter Heller, who served as President John Kennedy's chief economic adviser, "economically capricious, socially unfair, militarily risky, constitutionally questionable, politically irresponsible, procedurally perverse and administratively outlandish...