Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase over the same period a year ago. At Manhattan's 630 Fifth Avenue passport office, applicants sometimes stand in line for as long as four hours. Alitalia flights from New York to Italy have been fully booked since early May. The new cut-rate ($149) People Express transatlantic flights are sold out through mid-September (see box). Sales of American Express vacation packages, which are almost all priced below 1980 levels, are running 43% ahead of last year, and for the peak month of June were 100% ahead. TWA has already sold 175% more of its budget Supersaver...
...Class, two trains to Harvard Square meet in the way station of Vernon Academy, an Illinois boys' prep school. The express arrives in the form of Square "Skip" Ellsworth Burroughs IV (Rob Lowe), an academy lifer who, well, the name says it all. But by senior year, the local chugs in and Skip finds himself rooming with Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), a bright it somewhat unworldly scholarship student First day out, the preppie picks on the nerd and Class seems to be shaping up into a celluloid bildungstoman...
...price of dinner. Women who are beautiful and know how to use it--like the shopgirls in Robert's lunch date--are whores. You can see it just by looking around you. And if a smart man like Frederick Barthelme, who knows so well how to express himself, sees it too--well, then, it must be so. How inexorably plausible. How damnably unfair...
...viewed less favorably by female than by male voters on just about every question that the pollsters raise. Contrary to popular belief, the gender gap yawns wider on economic than on foreign policy issues. For example, large majorities of both sexes-71% of men, 64% of women-express at least some confidence that the President is dealing effectively with the Soviets on arms control. But only 53% of the women believe that the economy is improving, vs. 65% of the men. On Reagan's strongest issue, inflation, the division is even more striking. Men are satisfied with Reagan...
...seven-term New York State Republican Congressman and lawyer, who ran for Vice President of the U.S. on Barry Goldwater's ill-fated 1964 ticket; of a stroke; in Buffalo. After the defeat, Miller returned to Lockport, N.Y., and obscurity, re-emerging briefly in a 1975 American Express card commercial ("Do you know me?") for which he is at least as well remembered nationally as for his political career...