Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private funders of mental health research, according to Hearne. Although he was unable to comment on why Radcliffe College in particular was chosen for the grant, Hearne cited the foundation's general interest in longitudinal studies...
After getting assurances that he would be the sole author of the report, Koop took to the task with an open mind, consulting Government experts like the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci and inviting more than 25 groups, from gay activists to the Southern Baptist Convention, to his office. He wrote 26 drafts at the stand-up desk in the basement of the brick house he rents on the campus of the NIH. He numbered the copies he took to a meeting at the White House and collected all of them to prevent leaks. The next...
...also help to remember that fitness as a means of courting Aphrodite has a long, respectable history. The canny Sheik Nefzawi listed bodily health as one of eight essentials for sexual delight. The other seven: "Absence of all care and worry, an unembarrassed mind, natural gaiety of the spirit, good nourishment, wealth, the variety of the faces of women and the variety of their complexions." And maybe just once in a while it wouldn't hurt to have a nice glass of camel's milk mixed with honey...
...President has behaved like a loyal member of the congressional alumni association who wants to prove that he is still one of the guys despite his fancy new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush intends to block ambitious Democratic schemes to mandate that business provide such universal benefits as health insurance, but he is prepared to negotiate with Congress on consensus issues like the environment. As Fred McClure, the White House legislative liaison, puts it, "Assuming we can get them on board, and it goes in the direction of where we want to go, there's no point in going through...
...halt the popularity slide by reshuffling his Cabinet last week, but the move only underscored his political weakness. Among those ousted was disruptive Defense Minister Rupert Scholz. Recent controversies concerning West German involvement in Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything...