Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Money confiscated by the police department is currently placed in a special trust fund for law enforcement, which Healy said goes in part to pay overtime salaries for undercover officers. But the council, which is not regularly informed about trust fund expenditures, expressed confusion as to the other uses of the fund...
After all, it wasn't the prayers we didn't understand or the events at Mt. Sinai that made us Jewish--it was the family gatherings at Hannukah and Passover, the special appreciation of Woody Allen, the grandparents who used a bissel (a little) Yiddish. It was corned beef with mustard on rye, not with mayonaise on white. It was having Sunday brunch more religiously than Shabbat meals. It was seeing everyone we knew at synagogue twice a year, and pretending spare ribs didn't count as pork in the Chinese restaurant. And it was suffering an afternoon a week...
...this a mind-expanding drug trip? A cult happening? The exercises mandated by an Indian guru? Not at all. The men and women at the Synchro Energize salon were engaged in a serious stress-reduction exercise, seeking to find greater serenity by donning special goggles that flash lights in the eyes and headphones that play tones and songs. This high-tech route to relaxation may sound far out, but it is starting to catch on. About a dozen stress- reduction salons have recently opened in the U.S., and they are beginning to spring up in machine-minded Japan...
...fact that the 71-year-old 60 Minutes curmudgeon usually zeros in on fail-safe targets like health clubs, cereal and encyclopedia salesmen. But starting last December, Rooney blundered beyond his usual puckish humor into a series of ill-advised and sometimes ignorant statements. On a prime-time special called A Year with Andy Rooney: 1989 he listed "homosexual unions," along with smoking and alcohol abuse, among the "self-induced" causes of death incurred by Americans. There were immediate protests at the implication that gays willingly contract AIDS...
...network seems to have weighed more heavily the market share that minority groups represent. If so, the attitude could backfire. Suspending Rooney might encourage more special-interest groups to blow whistles at even less substantial slights. As for Rooney, he continues to produce a twice-a- week syndicated column and is working on a book. He will probably not change his offbeat tune much. "Public relations," he says, "is a business that I'm not in." Thank goodness. CBS is doing enough backpedaling for everyone concerned...