Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows that rationing health resources on the basis of age is an "austere thesis," but he takes to the intellectual battlements willingly. Thinking through the fundamental moral and practical problems of life is the unique concern of the Hastings Center, which he co-founded with Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969. Reared in a comfortable Roman Catholic family in Washington, Callahan earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1965. By then he was a leader in the effort to liberalize Catholic thought as an editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. But about 1968 "I started fading from Catholicism," he says...
...plasterer who once played in the U.S.F.L. He used to weigh more than 305 lbs., which made him a bit sluggish in competition, so he dieted to a mere 275 for today's event. He has a menacing black beard that hides his face, ravaged at age 30. Bob used to have a problem with drugs and alcohol, or as he puts it, "They had a grip on me. But no more. Now I speak against drugs to kids at church groups. This is the sideline for the working guys of the world. They come to the table, take...
...dynamic, much traveled Nakasone put Japan on the world map -- and the rest of the world on Japan's map. Takeshita's slight international experience is a painful shortcoming. His penchant for the slow process of consensus may also be a dangerous anachronism, the product of an age that Tokyo seems to have outgrown. Says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo: "If Takeshita had been elected in the 1960s, he would have been a very fine Prime Minister. But unfortunately he comes too late...
...kept telling stories about barbers or messenger boys who had kept their ears open, bought on margin and become millionaires. John J. Raskob, who had been a director of General Motors and was now the Democratic Party chairman, published an article titled "Everybody Ought to Be Rich." The jazz age would never end. What almost nobody seemed to notice was that while the leading stocks kept climbing, many others did not. Celanese, for example, had dropped from 118 to 66 since 1927, Philip Morris from 41 to 12. The speculators also did not seem to notice that the allegedly sound...
...dramatic find was a triumph of space-age technology and archaeological investigation. The existence of the sister ship had been suspected since 1954, when the first vessel was discovered near the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Cheops, or Khufu. Work at the new site began two weeks ago. The trick was to probe the chamber without disturbing the interior -- including the 4,600-year-old air that might reveal secrets of the ancient atmosphere...