Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most frustrating of all to Dukakis is the sense that he has only limited leverage over Jackson. His late-night foray to Jackson's hotel was part of a mutual effort to warm up what has been a cool, correct relationship. In his speeches, Dukakis frequently butters up Jackson, making a somewhat stretched comparison between his own immigrant heritage and Jackson's rise from poverty and racial discrimination. Yet Jackson's advisers, themselves divided over strategy, continue to complain that Dukakis does not understand Jackson...
...this desire to know everything beforecommitting myself that made me a vegetablefreshman year. I did not admit any variables intomy life or my politics. If I thought something, itwas possible and correct. If something wasrational to me, then surely it could and shouldhave been real and meaningful to everyone else...
...reverse: alcohol is a small but genuine contribution toward their pursuit of happiness. Society has decided that the pleasure of drinking is worth the equally genuine cost to society and pain to many individuals of alcoholism, automobile accidents and so on. What's more, this social decision is correct. The world would not be a better place without booze, even if that were possible. The pursuit of happiness has its legitimate claims in the social calculus...
...operations: multiple abdominal transplants. Doctors in the U.S. have tried such surgery only four times in the past four years. Just one patient, now seriously ill, survives. Ten-month-old Michael Steward of Chicago received a new liver, pancreas, small intestine and part of the stomach in February to correct a congenital defect. Last week, a record 6 1/2 months after a similar operation, three-year-old Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., succumbed to cancer. The lesson: physicians have a great deal more to learn before they can manipulate the immune system at will...
...chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Bork hearings. But since February Joe Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with a blood clot. Last week Biden was back, again because of an aneurysm. In intensive care after surgery, he was said to be doing well. He is expected to return to duty in the near future...