Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then flag down an astonished cabbie ("White people!" his face says) and go back through Sugar Hill to 145th Street and Broadway. The character of this area, with its many Dominican immigrants, is raffish and polyglot. One store, the House of Talisman, is downright polytheistic. In the window of this religious-goods mart, wooden Indians rub elbows with statues of the Madonna and an ebony St. Martin of Tours; inside, Holy Seven Spiritual Good Luck Bath Oil and the ever reliable Gamblers Drops are for sale. Next door is a nice place for early dinner: Copeland's, which speaks...
...would go to his temporary office on the seventh floor at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every day the phone wouldn't ring. His wife, uprooted from Philadelphia, waited in their small sublet wondering whether to unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years of medical school, Koop's fractured vertebra and stomach surgery and, worst of all, the death of a son -- and they stuck it out. Finally...
...licked his lips. He sipped water. His ashen face looked aged. The strain was evident as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita faced his challengers in the Diet. The embattled Japanese leader made a series of extraordinary admissions to a special session of the Diet budget committee. Last October Takeshita flatly denied any connection to the burgeoning scandal that has linked dozens of Japanese politicians and bureaucrats to a money-and-favor game played by the Recruit Co., a $3.25 billion information-and-real-estate conglomerate. But last week Takeshita conceded that over the years he and others close to him received...
Although his presidency is three months old, Bush has still not presented reasonable solutions to the problems that face the U.S. But rather than worry about the nation, Bush seems to be saying we should instead look at how nice the people in the White House are. Issues and policies often are not admirable, but Mrs. Bush--well, now there is someone to admire...
...report, Bok revealed that only 44 percent of the 1985 Master in Public Policy graduates were currently pursuing careers in public service. Criticizing the curriculum for not encouraging more of the student body to work in the public sector, Bok wrote that in the face of a great need for first-rate public servants in our country, it was the school's responsibility to encourage its top students to embark on careers in government...