Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flocking to the Moscow Weight Loss Clinic, the first ever in the Soviet Union. Since it opened earlier this year, the center has treated some 4,800 clients ($15 for the first visit) with a regimen of strict diet and exercise, and boasts a waiting list of 35,000. Founder Dr. Vasili Vorobyev, author of the best-selling diet book Good Health, estimates that 20% to 50% of Soviets are overweight. "People exercise too little and eat too much," he says. Vorobyev has already opened two more clinics and has plans for a fourth. Jane Fonda, are you listening...
...wife was allowed to leave the Soviet Union to undergo cancer treatment last January, he thought it was a sign that his twelve years as a Jewish refusenik were about to end. But his wife died in Washington a few weeks later, and since then Meiman, 76, a founder of the Soviet human-rights movement, has remained, isolated and in need of surgery he cannot get in the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities point to his once classified work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences 30 years ago as an excuse to prevent him from joining his only relative, a daughter...
...fact, independent living for the disabled reduces costs to the state, said Clay McDowell, co-founder of the disabled advocacy group Access Alaska...
...Timofeyev, co-founder of the unofficial press club "Glasnost" formed earlier this year by former political prisoners and other activists, told The Associated Press by telephone that the four men were detained while boarding a train in Lvov...
...even thinking about a small tour. If asked, she will consider seeing the Stones again ("I would like to see them, perhaps just once, to acknowledge my past, give it a bow"), but speaks with real respect and affection about the caring attention of her friend Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell. Under his benign guidance, she felt "no pressure to do anything. I was given a little allowance, a house was found, and . . . live your life a day at a time. And I did that. And I started to get well...