Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...righthanded fast-baller (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag), Armstrong arrived at the Reds' camp this spring full of enthusiasm and good deeds. "I've waited 22 years for an opportunity to pitch in the major leagues," he says, meaning he must have been contemplating it at the age of one. "He'd run through that wall if you asked him to," smiles Manager Pete Rose, who has finished running through walls himself. But Jack Armstrong will probably begin the season in the minors, in some small and scrubby place appropriate to bright starts...
Together with Co-Author Dr. Robert Kolodny, who directed the research for Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (Grove Press), the first couple of sex treatment charge the government with "benevolent deception" in downplaying the extent and nature of the epidemic. Among their assertions...
...taking a clear majority of the popular vote (57%), Bush, according to the ABC News exit poll, carried all age and income groups. But despite that tide, surveys indicated potential weaknesses. Among voters who based their decision on the candidate who can best "get things done," Dole got a plurality. Those who listed their main concern as reducing the federal deficit went for Dole by a 2-to-1 majority. TIME's survey showed that among Democrats Dole continues to enjoy a much higher "favorability" rating than Bush does. Dole is viewed favorably by 48% of registered Democrats and unfavorably...
...Volunteers are not a frill," says Brickman. "In the age of Ronald Reagan and public school cutbacks, they are indispensible. Volunteers are a fundamental part of our ability to provide service to students...
George Washington invented the form of American presidential gravitas. His political successors lived with a perception of decline, of a falling off from the golden age. When Warren G. Harding (a falling off indeed) expressed doubt that he had the size to be President, an Ohio political boss named Harry Daugherty told him, "Don't make me laugh . . . The days of the giants in the presidential chair is passed . . . Greatness in the presidential chair is largely an illusion of the people...