Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively young age of 30, Canfield has already risen to the post of administrative assistant to Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-Ga.). She attributes her success solely to her Kennedy School connections. The native New Yorker had no personal or political ties to Fowler before she started working for him. Canfield avoided the traditional back-room congressional politicking necessary to land a job such as hers in past years...
...Kennedy School provided "the leverage I needed to get downtown," Canfield says. "I would never have moved to this level at this age without the Kennedy School...
...brains and other organs from starving during this period without blood-borne oxygen and nutrients, metabolic demands would be reduced to a minimum by lowering the babies' body temperature to 68 degrees F, putting them into a state of suspended animation. Because their brains are resilient, children below the age of 18 months have a remarkable capacity to recover from induced hypothermia, which is frequently used in pediatric heart surgery. Even so, doctors figured that once the hearts were stopped, the doctors had no more than one hour to complete the separation and reconstruction before irreparable damage would occur...
...television age, the way Bork comes across could be critically important. Both sides of the debate pay lip service to the notion that they do not want to see the issue politicized. That objective is not necessarily all that laudable, and certainly not all that likely. The confirmation of such an ideologically controversial nominee, one whose effect on the court and the nation could be enormous for years to come, is ultimately a political matter. If Americans watching the hearings this week like what they see, if they are reassured by either Bork's mind or his manner, the advice...
...Kennedy School provided "the leverage I needed to get downtown," Canfield says. "I would never have moved to this level at this age without the Kennedy School...