Word: heals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Katz began the interviews for Home Fires four years ago and obviously became fond of the Gordons. He is pleased that they now seem at peace with themselves and the faith that even "the most wounded of families could eventually heal." Readers will be forgiven if they attribute some of the Gordons' semihappy ending to sheer exhaustion...
...President Fidel Ramos this week. Marcos, who wasn't welcome at home a year ago, won a very respectable 2 million votes in the recent presidential election (to Ramos' 5.3 million). Ramos, who is inheriting a more stable situation than Cory Aquino did six years ago, seems eager to heal old wounds. He is expected to offer amnesty to communist, Muslim and military rebels. And he is rumored to be planning to end the government's campaign to seize the Marcos billions. Last week the official charged with retrieving the "hidden wealth" recommended a compromise with Imelda to split...
...plow, disk (two or three times), plant, cultivate, spray and harvest. Now he makes four trips -- to plant, spray (twice) and harvest -- saving more than $25 an acre. He soon found that his yields went up 10% and something else even more precious: he was helping the land heal and rebuild its delicate mantle of topsoil, without which civilization as we know it would cease to exist...
...Crimson, as usual, got the last word. (It's nice to own the presses.) In an editorial titled "Now, A Time to Heal," the staff called for a cessation to interracial hostilities, praising Rudenstine's call for the Harvard community to "stop blaming each other...
...their aftermath will be a major issue in the November elections. But past the immediate impact -- another drop in Bush's popularity -- they cannot be sure how it will play. Will frightened voters respond to stern pledges to restore law and order, or heed calls for new efforts to heal racial animosity, or demand some elusive combination of both? Unable to fix immediately on the right blend, candidates instinctively responded by trying to place blame, while piously denying that they were doing any such thing. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater initially blamed Democratic Great Society social programs enacted...