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...Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala received a checkup at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center in April 1994 after collapsing for the second time in six weeks...
Nadia Comaneci dominated the Montreal Olympic Games with her uncanny gymnastic poise: "Comaneci is an extraordinarily somber child...While waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action...and her body perfectly still. The same, somewhat unsettling demeanor marked her press conferences. At times she would walk about holding tight to a large doll. Asked how she felt about becoming the focus of world adulation, she deadpanned: 'It's nothing special. I feel just the same as before.' Did she ever think she might...
...review of the airline by the FAA. In its original review in February, the FAA found that ValuJet followed Federal Aviation rules, regulations and procedures to the full extent of the law. Since the crash, the FAA has decided to move up and extend a previously scheduled seven-day checkup of the airline. The new investigation will focus on contract maintenance, cockpit resource management , internal processes for monitoring the maintenance of ValuJet aircraft, and dispatch and control of in-flight operations. The FAA continues to reassure passengers that the price of a ticket has nothing to do with the safety...
...YEARS, TIME has periodically convened a group of the most interesting and knowledgeable people we could find to talk about the state of the U.S. economy. These symposia, which we now organize about once a year, have provided our journalists (and, by extension, our readers) with something of a checkup on the nation's economic health--a chance to take its temperature, gauge its pulse and draw a few conclusions about where it might be headed. In the past, we have selected our panelists from among the country's top economic experts (four previous participants have also served as chairman...
Yeltsin: First, I would like to thank them for their concern, and secondly, I'd like to say they have nothing to be worried about. Recently I underwent a complete medical checkup. The results were made known to the Russian press. The specialists did not uncover any noticeable deviations from the norm. There are fluctuations, of course, in my blood pressure, but the doctors and I are watching this. In general, I feel fine...