Word: closing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...impending war. For most of us, the military build-up in the Gulf simply does not directly affect our daily lives, so many of us do not feel compelled to take a side. We can run about buying Secret Santa gifts and writing term papers and not realize how close we are to war. But the deadline approaches rapidly...
...Beijing choose this particular moment to step up its prosecutions? One theory holds that Beijing's embattled leaders would like to close the book on the Tiananmen episode and turn their attention to more pressing domestic problems, such as the ailing Chinese economy and improvement of relations with the West...
Millions of Americans make this complaint, but how many do anything about it? Sleep is a biological imperative, but do people consider it as vital as food or drink? Not in today's rock-around-the-clock world. Not in a society in which mothers work, stores don't close, assembly lines never stop, TV beckons all the time, and stock traders have to keep up with the action in Tokyo. For too many Americans, sleep has become a luxury that can be sacrificed or a nuisance that must be endured...
...long as that attitude persists, the national sleep deficit will not be easy to close. Government and businesses can help by formulating more enlightened work rules and schedules. What is needed most of all, though, is a fundamental change in Americans' thinking about the necessity of sleep. A difficult task, yes. But not impossible. Millions of citizens have already shown themselves capable of making far harder decisions once they realize that theirhealth is at stake. Americans have stubbed out cigarettes, laced up exercise shoes and pushed away plates laden with high-cholesterol, high-fat foods. By comparison, choosing to spend...
...Europeans don't have 24-hour societies like we do," says Henry Ford Hospital's Roth. "If you're in Paris and you're looking for a restaurant at 2 in the morning, you're not going to find one so easily." In Germany most stores close by 6:30 p.m., TV networks usually sign off by 1 a.m., and Sunday remains largely a day of rest...