Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1930s Maidenform shocked the world by using photos of actual women modeling its bras in national advertisements. For the past year, the company has gone to the opposite extreme: featuring actors Omar Sharif, Michael York and L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen, musing about ladies and lingerie with nary a bra, teddy or pair of panties in sight. Owing in part to the $10 million campaign, Maidenform's revenues rose 11% this year, to $200 million...
...Boston area consistently ranked highest, both in the actual number of doctors and in the number of doctors per 100,000 residents. With 687 doctors of all types per 100,000 residents, Boston ranked well above Cambridge with 438, Newton with 404, Worcester--home of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center--with 273 and Salem with...
While Gorbachev would like us to believe "the use or threat of force no longer can or must be an instrument of foreign policy" for the Soviets, that way of thinking has simply not been reflected by Soviet actions until recently. Gorbachev's actual motive may be that he desperately needs to patch up the Soviet economy; the new policy may be an attempt to reallocate resources as much as a change in outlook. Many question whether Gorbachev will continue with his internal reforms once he gets the economy back on its feet...
...battered women and was sent to Bellevue Hospital. When doctors questioned Nussbaum, she said she belonged to a sadomasochistic cult. "Joel put the story in my mind," she testified, adding that he "would encourage me to come up with stories, fantasies about what happened. Since I had no actual memories of this myself, I believed I had some sort of amnesia about...
...less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor of New York champions another idea for dealing with Jackson. "We have to start treating Jesse like everyone else," says Mario Cuomo. "No more condescension. No more double standards. Give him the dignity he demands -- and all the scrutiny we demand of others. Only...