Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India and Thailand, and in the Communist world (Poland has opened five hospices). But no country has embraced the concept as widely as the U.S., which has 1,679 hospice programs. Last year 172,000 Americans, some 90% of them suffering from cancer, chose hospice care for their final days. AIDS sufferers are also finding that the hospice's sympathetic aura can ease them through the last days of their debilitating illness...
...video screen showing the face of George Washington and a message that "the measurement of the American dream is The Dollar." The other two are -- well, it is hard to say what exactly. Nick Patsaouras, head of the design committee, says that all will be "radically changed" before a final winner is chosen. . Some Los Angeles citizens devoutly hope so. Says Susan Kirvin-Cox, spokeswoman for the city's Visitors and Convention Bureau: "We need to get away from that wacky, weird image that everybody...
...plane was engulfed in a ball of fire, and villagers on the ground watched with horror as it plummeted to the earth, tumbling nose over tail like a toy as it fell. The huge turboprop bounced twice after hitting the sandy plain, then came down a third and final time, exploding on impact. All 30 people aboard were killed, including Zia, 64; Raphel, 45; Brigadier General Herbert Wassom, 49, the chief of the U.S. military mission in Pakistan; and five top Pakistani generals. "It was so hot we could not get close," said a distressed villager who rushed...
...journey to that final word is long and arduous, Powers' was no less so. "Ridiculous," says the author, shaking his head over his protracted effort to finish the book. There were the distractions of raising five children, of moving to Ireland and back to the U.S., and of coping with the long illness of his wife, Writer Betty Wahl, who died in May. But mostly Powers blames his own temperament ("Basically, I'm lazy") and age: "When you're a young writer, you think you can do anything, and therefore sometimes , you can. But an old writer is like...
...urge to inject details led to some surprising provisions. In their final deliberations, the drafters added an item calling for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms served by members of Congress. Other passages hardly qualify as presidential: the Republicans would evict drug dealers from public-housing projects and encourage recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools...