Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspect of the team's continuity that Caples would like to end is the team's inability to score goals. The Crimson tallied only 22 times last season and just four in the team's six Ivy League games. Also, the team's two leading scorers, Kate Felsen and Nicole Simourian, and their 10 goals combined have graduated, leaving a void up front...
...other aspect of her personality, the humorous, tender side, is reflected not only in the devotion of her staff but also in the lively, casual air of St. Christopher's. Visitors, even small children, are admitted at all hours. Dogs stroll around, visiting their sick owners. Some patients sip whiskey with their visitors. "It's like a five-star hotel," says an elderly patient. More, perhaps, it is a throwback to the early days of the century, when care from birth to death was normally delivered at home. As Matron Duffield observes, "A hospital would insist on a strict diet...
...story of the U.S. presidential race is really many stories to foreign journalists, depending on which aspect of the candidates' views or the parties' platforms is of greatest concern to their own countries. The Japanese press has concentrated on trade and economic issues, while the South Africans are almost single-mindedly focused on the question of American sanctions. This year's campaign has received unusually wide coverage in the Philippines because of George Bush's now famous 1981 toast commending President Ferdinand Marcos for his "adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes...
...Reagan persona, as well as his policies, is an important aspect of his legacy, changing the way Americans view leadership. He bestrides this election as an almost metaphysical force in the nation's political consciousness. Just as Jimmy Carter gave a bad name to intellect and hands-on attention to detail, Reagan has helped exalt the importance of a clear philosophical vision, even if the clarity is partly the result of his refusal to face unpleasant facts. Though cruelly diminished by scandal, Reagan is still widely perceived as the model of a strong President. In fact, for many voters under...
...Navy Air Corps) and Hynes' (Marine Air Corps) was clean linen. Navy carriers have decorum as well as dangers. But onshore, Bush lived in the world vividly described by Hynes as full of booze, womanizing and raunchy songs. Bush, describing the book to me, singled out this aspect of it as extraordinarily accurate -- "the experience in the bars, and the experience in the singing, and the experience of his ((Hynes')) macho guy." But I relayed Hynes' difficulty in imagining George Bush singing round after round of The Fing Great Wheel. Bush is amazed that this image should amaze people...