Word: arming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athlete's commitment does not guarantee success. For two years Tim Daggett, whose perfect 10 clinched the U.S. team's gold in Los Angeles, has bulled his way through the agony of injury. He has faced ankle surgery, a ruptured disk and nerve problems in his left arm. The worst came ten months ago after a vault at the World Championships in Rotterdam. When he landed disproportionately on his left leg, two bones simply snapped, severing an artery. His leg saved by an emergency operation, Daggett refused to stop: "I don't want to look back at any time...
...Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience. It is the talk show as group-therapy session...
...Pastry Arts Center, which charges students $700 a weeklong course, is an arm of Country Epicure, a thriving dessert company whose bakery in Elmsford turns out a tasty upscale line of frozen cakes, pies, tarts and tortes for the restaurant and hotel trade...
...aside reporters' comments about a poll showing 61% of the American public opposed to compensation. That, said Reagan, was because of the unpopularity of the Khomeini government, and the compensation would not be made to or through that government. Probably it will be routed through the Red Crescent, the arm of the Red Cross in Muslim countries...
Dukakis will be less vulnerable than many previous Democratic nominees to the charge that he is too soft on the Soviets, partly because of Reagan's embrace of Gorbachev in Red Square. Dukakis warns that the sight of Reagan "walking arm in arm" with Gorbachev should not obscure the fact that "we will continue to have fundamental differences with the Soviet Union." He is not starry-eyed about the promise of perestroika; change in the Soviet system, he says, is likely to be "evolutionary, not revolutionary." Dukakis believes that the U.S. should encourage Gorbachev's reforms because they involve shifting...