Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late-night crowd. Jay Leno, Carson's regular fill-in as Tonight host, has added a sharp political edge to his stand-up material. David Letterman, camp counselor on NBC's irreverent Late Night, seems to have boosted his political consciousness as well -- not just in his brief monologues but in such regular bits as the often hilarious Top Ten lists. Newcomer Pat Sajak also takes regular, if timid, swings at political figures like Vice President Quayle...
Most of the soldiers involved were from the 27th Army, which is based in Hebei province and apparently is led by members of Yang's family. The 27th, which fought China's brief 1979 war with Vietnam, invaded the city Saturday night and rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds...
...brief exchange, including several rounds from a tank cannon, occurred just south of the Military Museum in western Beijing. It followed unconfirmed reports of soldiers fighting soldiers in the western and southeastern parts of the city Monday and earlier...
...called attention to an emerging field in science called chronobiology, the study of the body's innate, rhythmic patterns. Today researchers realize that many human characteristics, from basic physiological functions such as blood pressure and body temperature to mental sharpness and moods, follow such patterns. Some cycles are as brief as seconds; the heart's permeability to certain chemical ions appears to shift back and forth in less than a minute. Others are measured in months; some people regularly fall into deep depressions in winter and cheer up in summer...
Cavazos adamantly defends himself against charges that his brief tenure has been short on results and vows to quiet skeptics with an upcoming series of hard-hitting speeches. "I'm more concerned with solutions than criticism," he says. "Has ((Treasury Secretary Nicholas)) Brady solved the budget crisis yet? Has the drug problem disappeared...