Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard pedigree to the cause of supply-side's credibility was Martin Feldstein. He designed models to prove that poor people save less than rich, while a college classmate of his, George Gilder, added new dimensions to the word "reactionary" with a primitive anthropology that explained why. The easiest convert was the old gunslinger himself--the untested theories gave presidential candidate Ronald Reagan more ground than the traditional hymns to patriotism and loyalty allowed him to stand on. But the most coveted was a young congressman from Michigan, a midwestern farmboy with strong sensibilities for justice and equity a college...
...illusions surrounding supply-side theory have been thoroughly shattered, both for David Stockman, convert-turned-cynic in a few short months, and, we hope, for the American people. Stockman, the "point man" for the President's budget- and tax-slashing program, describes in chilling terms in the current Atlantic Monthly just whom the plan benefits--the "hogs" of American big business were "really feeding" on a diet of special tax breaks. At the same time, the measly reductions in personal income taxes were serving as a convenient Trojan Horse to calm the American people while the richest raked...
Thus a person with O blood has been dubbed the universal donor. Though 45% of the population are group O, the supply of donated O blood on hand is often not enough to meet needs. If it were possible to convert blood from the other three groups to type O, however, that supply would be dramatically increased. Researchers at the New York Blood Center have taken an important step toward that goal. Experiments directed by Biochemist Jack Goldstein have transformed type B red blood cells to type O. Using a "cutting" enzyme extracted from coffee beans, the researchers clipped...
This book does wile away an hour or two in a useless, harmless sort of way. It's doubtful that it will convert anyone, but it could make a nice hard-bound supplement to that magazine rack in the bathroom...
Simmons represents a new breed of health instructor. Though his delivery is breezy, he exudes the compelling energy of a passionate convert. He has also grasped a central fact about new-wave fitness. America likes to think of itself as a young nation, yet its average age is already 30. Anxiety over that point, Simmons notes, is not confined to leisured matrons. The folks on food stamps and blue-collar men and women live with an unspoken fear of Wrinkle City. Says he: "People are scared of getting old. They believe they won't have a sex life, they...