Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news blackout will surely evaporate by the time talks conclude, as each party competes to broadcast its version of the proceedings. Until then, the prisoners of Thurmont will have to function largely without leaks, a handicap that often results in minor disaster and desperate attempts at onescoopmanship. The A.P. reported, erroneously, that Carter and Begin had talked for 3½ hours Tuesday night and would eat lunch with Sadat on Wednesday (in fact, the Tuesday meeting lasted only two hours and Wednesday's luncheon did not take place). A.P. recovered by getting hold of a pool photo of Sadat...
...insisted that the company's 43 highest executives take fully paid three-month sabbaticals every five years, just to recharge themselves. Miller spent one sabbatical building shelves in his garage. Senior Vice President J. Joseph Kruse is convinced that Miller pushed himself to practice squash and golf (his handicap is 17) primarily to spare associates the embarrassment of putting up with an inferior player who happened to be the boss. Kruse, who often golfed with Miller for $1 a hole, was mildly annoyed by his insistence on playing out a hole that he had no chance of winning...
...poor American showing on three factors: lagging outlays in research and development, which have slowed the rate of laborsaving innovation in U.S. industry; a paucity of capital investment necessary for the purchase of more productive machines; and the upsurge in costly federal environmental and safety regulations, which often handicap plant efficiency...
Being in a wheelchair, I am occasionally asked whether there is any distinction between the terms "disability" and "handicap." The former refers specifically to a condition of physical impairment such as paraplegia (paralysis of the lower limbs), deafness or blindess. The term handicap, however, can be defined more generally as anything that substantially impedes normal activity. The two concepts need not be synonymous. A person in a wheelchair, when provided with a barrier-free environment (e.g., curb cuts, ramps, accessible toilet facilities, lowered telephones, drinking fountains and elevator buttons) may experience no handicap whatsoever. In contrast, a shopper wearing elevator...
...exist, who could invent him? Consider. He can pilot a jet fighter and knows enough about helicopters to help repair them. He has skippered a Royal Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales with the skill of a yachtsman handling a racing sloop. He plays an aggressive, three-plus-handicap game of polo and is a qualified paratrooper. He is a gifted amateur cellist who can be moved to tears while listening to the music of Berlioz. He has scuba-dived in the Caribbean, schussed down Alps, sambaed into the night with Brazilian beauties. A keen student of history...