Word: enough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rocketing gasoline prices and a looming recession, all of which should be a boon to a small, inexpensive car that gets 27 m.p.g. in city driving and 37 m.p.g. on the highway. In Spring Hill, Saturn executives exude a cocky optimism that their moment has arrived. They are confident enough in Saturn that they chose Southern California, the heart of import country, as one of the first launching points. Saturn's goal is to sell 80% of its cars to import buyers. "We're really out to get the guy who's driving the Civic or the Corolla. That...
...first glance, the legislation under discussion in the Diet last week seemed innocuous enough. The bill before the house called for the creation of a "United Nations Peace Cooperation Corps" that could be sent overseas in response to resolutions by the world organization. That notion appeared unexceptionable, since Japan has long been a strong advocate of the U.N.; yet the bill generated a furious debate. The reason: the proposed law would allow the Prime Minister to dispatch units of the armed forces to foreign soil for the first time since...
Some experts estimate that the Ground Self-Defense Force, as the army is known, is at least 12% below its authorized strength of 180,000 because it cannot find enough recruits. Even critics of the military show some sympathy. Says Masao Kunihiro, a Socialist Diet member who opposes the use of Japanese troops abroad: "It's a pity that the S.D.F. has been treated so shabbily by the public...
...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...
...Even before Gorbachev began to speak, however, his proposal had become a lightning rod for protest from radical reformers. In a week in which the Soviet President had won the Nobel Peace Prize for changing the world, he was fated to be awarded criticism at home for not worrying enough about soap and bread...