Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Easing the squeeze on Poland could be made politically easier for Reagan by the lack of rancor expressed by many of the prisoners freed in the amnesty. Andrzej Gwiazda, a co-founder of the banned Solidarity trade union, was hopeful as he welcomed well-wishers to his Gdansk apartment. If the relaxation continues, he said, "we might reach the point that the government will decide on pluralism." He added, "The present government is the most intelligent in the past 40 years, and that is already something." Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa also expressed hope for renewed contact between Poland...
...Fixx, doctors say, it is that warning signs are meant to be needed. Fixx knew that his family history put him at high risk for heart disease, and yet the runner was "really negligent" about seeing doctors, says ex-Wife Alice Kasman Fixx. According to Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Aerobics Center in Dallas, Fixx may have been running from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common...
...years for Helen Williams, a founder of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. It was 13 years for Jane Campbell, candidate for the Ohio legislature and former ERAmerica. She passed around champagne as the Ferraro nominating speeches ended, while across the aisle Texas women hugged and wept. It was O.K. to cry. "Did you ever think you would see the day?" Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards kept repeating. "I've worked 32 years in politics, and nothing has made me so happy," sobbed Billie Carr, Democratic National Committeewoman. Carr was 27 days old when...
...seems almost metaphysical. "It somehow changes the context of my relationship to the outside world and the way I feel about myself," explains Anne Just, who leads Vermont's delegation in San Francisco this week. "It is as though the molecules had been rearranged." Said Koryne Horbal, a founder of the Democratic Party Women's Caucus: "When I walked down the street today, I felt different, I felt validated...
...principal founder of the movement that ultimately brought Ferraro to the Democratic ticket must have experienced a similar moment one day back in 1840. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 24, newly married to an Abolitionist Orator named Henry Brewster Stanton, had accompanied him to London, where he was to be a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. There she learned that this meeting to combat slavery was barred to all women. Click...