Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...send a clear signal, a panel of experts assembled by the NHLBI last week called for all Americans over age 20 to have their cholesterol levels checked. The group also set forth the first well-defined national cholesterol-level standards for adults and spelled out precisely what physicians should do once ^ a patient's cholesterol level is determined. "Medical practice is going to undergo a major change on the basis of this report," said Panel Chairman DeWitt S. Goodman of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City...
When Clare Boothe Luce died last week in Washington at the age of 84, the country lost the pre-eminent Renaissance woman of the century, a pioneer who had shown once and for all that "self-made woman" need not be a contradiction in terms. If greatness, as she once said to Churchill, means "to see, to say, to serve," some measure of it surely belonged to so shrewd an observer, so pungent a speaker and so versatile a public servant...
...part because of the death in a car accident of her only child Ann at the age of 19, she turned toward Catholicism and decided in 1946 not to run for re-election. Needless to say, a Luce retirement was hardly a rest: the years that followed found her explaining her conversion in a series of articles titled "The Real Reason"; memorably denouncing the Democrats as a speaker at the 1948 Republican National Convention; receiving an Oscar nomination in 1949 for her original story for the gentle comedy Come to the Stable, about two nuns setting up a hospital...
Some students decried the new policy, saying it would cut into campus social life at Wellesley, where about 75 percent of the students are under the legal drinking age...
...critics say that Bourguiba, 84, who has ruled the small North African nation (pop. 7.6 million) since it gained independence from France in 1956, regularly conjures up foreign plots in order to justify suppression of dissent. Despite his age and frail health, Bourguiba's hold on power is virtually absolute: his Destourian Socialist Party holds every seat in parliament, most opposition newspapers have been shut down, and competing political parties are restricted...