Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trotman's athletic finesse, perhaps an innate quality, began to surface at the age of 10 when she was one of only two girls to join her hometown junior ice hockey league. At the same time, she began racing in single-handed boats at her local yacht club in Cold Spring Harbor in Syosset, N.Y., where her mother had won the Junior Championships...
...spend the night dozing against the brick wall of an Immigration and Naturalization Service center in Harlingen, Texas. On a muddy field in nearby Brownsville, 75 families endure a driving rainstorm crouched under plastic sheeting. At an abandoned hotel, children shiver around wood fires and try to sleep in cold, gutted rooms under mounds of donated blankets. By official estimate, at least 5,000 refugees from war and deteriorating economies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have been stranded in South Texas since the INS last month directed applicants for political asylum coming through the Rio Grande Valley...
...rest of the rooms at an energy-saving 65 degrees. Or a family can order the air conditioning turned off while they are out of town and restarted three hours before they are due home. Once instructions have been recorded, the system automatically controls the flow of hot and cold air by means of motorized dampers installed in the ductwork behind the walls...
REAGAN wrote his own chapter in the history of the cold war by overseeing the largest peacetime buildup of the armed forces in history. This buildup, however, has not necessarily led to greater security because of the great corruption and inefficiency which has festered in the Pentagon during his tenure. The scandals are numerous and widespread, ranging from the trading of top-secret information to mere collaboration between military officials and corporate contractors. Of course, nowadays, one can barely distinguish between...
...Ronald Reagan's prescription for success, which asks us to hope that wealth will someday trickle down to our less successful brethren, we should work to create an environment of cooperation in which all men and women have meaningful opportunities to succeed. After eight years of Ronald Reagan's cold shoulder, we should see to it that George Bush's "kinder, gentler nation" generates some warmth...