Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only "issue" of the convention was Ronald Reagan's Teflon invulnerability; the principal activity was a delight in sharing his life. This was accomplished not so much by actual appearances at the convention (he came late and moved about little) but by way of the films he had made before he arrived. The 18-minute film that introduced the President's speech at the convention made Reagan himself cry when he first saw it. The one that introduced Nancy was even more touching, ending with his tribute to her. When Nancy went onstage, Reagan appeared on the screen behind...
...solution, in his formula. Admittedly, Reagan loves government as ceremony and majesty. The rituals of his office, so irksome to other Presidents, were the things he liked best and did best. He gave out medals and awards enthusiastically (and generously: the military granted more medals for % Grenada than actual troops landed there). Heroic government, on the epic scale, was his favorite movie -- the happy Nuremberg rally...
...actual disciplinary hearing was a screw job," he added in the letter. University officials refused comment on any aspect of the disciplinary hearings...
...College of Medicine, offered a solution to the mystery of the Guamanian cases when he traced them to a toxin found in cycad seeds, which the natives used to eat in times of famine. The toxin specifically affects nerve cells, says Spencer, and "exposure may occur decades before the actual onset of the disease...
East Africa, where the wild things are, is an earthly paradise, a dream kingdom where the actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY...