Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine-page document, released last Friday on the eve of the candidate's birthday, is the most complete medical information released about a presidential candidate in memory, including chemistry, urinalysis and blood charts, an ekg chart and a four-page summary. "The patient is in excellent health with all medical conditions stable or controlled," was the verdict of Dr. John Eisold, the attending congressional physician. Dole's campaign carefully leaked the materials early to selected news organizations, including Time, and provided opportunities to photograph the candidate on his treadmill...
...counts herself a conventional believer. In The Gnostic Gospels, about the early Christian sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen it as a parable of human freedom...
...eve of his 72nd birthday, the candidate talked in his Capitol office with correspondents Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty about the cycle of age, experience and shifting politics...
President Clinton, who only months ago had rushed to accommodate Republican plans to repeal federal affirmative-action programs, now suddenly seems ready to turn and fight. On the eve of what the White House has billed as a defining presidential speech on the issue, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit...
Figuring outNorth Korea's leadershipcould make even a Kremlinologist's head spin, but it looks as though Kim Jong Il -- son of the late PresidentKim Il Sung-- may finally be running the show. Today, on the eve of the anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea...