Word: healed
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...George Washington University. After spending a year as a White House Fellow in 1971-72, he returned to San Antonio's West Side in 1974 to live with his wife and two daughters. Says Dan Parman, a wealthy conservative who supported Cisneros: "Henry is the guy who can heal the wounds. He's acceptable to people on both sides of the tracks...
...knocked senseless by machines, people weaving and stumbling around that nightclub, discovering later that the outside world is just as brutal and disorderly, with "millions murdered for a kiss-me-quick." (Think of "The Human Touch," which at least assumed there was such a thing, or that it could heal, anyway.) "Strict Time," which follows, is the alternative--Shut Up and Dance, with the Attractions providing a relentless, broken-record riff that keeps Elvis on a treadmill. (Elvis is marvelous at trapping himself inside a melody, a regular rock and roll George Jetson.) There is better: "Watch Your Step...
...people and places those Washington moneys touch. Though inevitably some were born of boondoggling and hornswoggling in the give and take of American politics, most federal programs were conceived with the best of intentions, created to advance goals on which much of America agreed. To feed the hungry. To heal the sick. To train the jobless. To enable the nation's youth to go to college. To help American business compete abroad. To further the arts. To preserve the family farm. But whether misused or effective, each contributed to an ever growing cascade of federal largesse that the nation...
...essential to the economies of the industrial West. Thus the current fears about the potential threat to Pakistan from Soviet legions on the other side of the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan may give way within a few years to even deeper dismay over Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal warfare into Iran...
...3/4-in., the current Harvard record, Embree continued jumping and has not stopped since moving West except for the time lost from the injury last year. "Between my achilles tendon problems and us not going to the Olympics. I didn't work as hard as I should have to heal it," Embree says, but adds that he is nearing full strength again, and jumping over seven feet...