Word: footing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wizardry, stepping machines offer little that a staircase cannot provide. "There is nothing magical about the machines," says Steve Farrell of the Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas. "You can get the exact same benefit from just climbing stairs in the home or office." And going between floors on foot can be healthier for the bank account...
Declared Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "The bishop shot himself in the foot...
Once again the task before Gorbachev is to enhance his power by co-opting the demands for radical change while at the same time persuading conservative foot draggers to join his cause. But to contain the rising tide of dissent in the Soviet Union, now bubbling up through many unofficial groups and opposing factions within the party itself, before it reaches the flood levels prevailing in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party will have to demonstrate that it deserves the support of the people without relying on the crutch of Article...
...ROBERT H. SCOTT, now Harvard's vice president for finance, explaining why Harvard spent three years and $25,000 building a 25-square foot gatehouse by the Johnston Gate
...biggest changes made, according to the leaders of campus women's groups, were the introduction last March of a student-run foot patrol escort service, SafeStreets, and the acquisition of another car this year for the administration-sponsored escort service...