Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated Olympic competition since 1956 but who finished second to Rumania in last year's World Championships, went...
...Eisenhower and Reagan-in temperament, education, experience, talent, knowledge and techniques of leadership-have much to do with each other? Some of their characteristics are similar-the winning American grin, the air of decent good guy. In both, the voter senses a remarkably steady emotional grip, a self-confidence; both inspire loyalty. In neither have Americans detected those dark glints of paranoia and compulsion that eventually repelled them in some Presidents after...
...Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain to boot--and on nuclear energy (which has proved remarkably cost-inefficient, apocalyptic scenarios aside) show an unwillingness or inability to get a grip on the future destiny Reagan begs us to "recapture...
...will run after every ball hit to him, refusing to concede a winning shot, was evident in the boy who listened politely to his critics?and ignored them. "When I was twelve, people told me that if I want to be successful, I must change my style, change my grip, give up this two-handed backhand. I said I would change, but I knew I wouldn't. The truth is I am a very stubborn person. I was hitting the ball and it felt good to me, so I said to myself, why change? It is important to find your...
...followed him out the door. Weizman denied any such intention, but he told TIME last week that he would not be unhappy to see Begin's government collapse. In fact, the timing of his departure could hardly have been calculated to do more damage to Begin's grip on power. Beset by an annual inflation rate of 122%, blamed by the Egyptians for the deadlock in the Palestinian autonomy negotiations, and burdened by incessant squabbling within his fractious Cabinet coalition, Begin's government had grown precariously weak...