Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extravagance, Mrs. Reagan was a huge power inside her husband's Administration, a far greater influence on presidential policy than anyone since Mrs. Wilson. It was not until years later, when Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's condition was disclosed, that the nation began to take Nancy Reagan to its heart. Lady Bird Johnson (still a beloved national figure), Rosalynn Carter and Barbara Bush all managed to balance the external and internal functions of First Lady. They were good performers, good wives and good political partners. All of them promoted important causes--but none was an independent political figure...
...talked about honesty and integrity to thousands of raving students and then abruptly shifted gears: "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat." It was Jesse's wrestling slogan, and it might work in poker and horse racing, but you hoped someone was around to begin heart massage on the university regents...
Pastrana, 44, a Conservative who took office last summer, is doing what he can to keep the country intact. By any standard, his trip into the heart of FARC territory last week was courageous. "I did not become President of Colombia to preside over its dissolution," he recently told TIME...
Nineteen-year-old Michael Gillick was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of 3 1/2 months. His cancer--which has spread to his face, bones and heart, filling much of his body cavity--could kill him at any time. Michael is just one of more than 100 children with cancer in or near the small town of Toms River, N.J. (pop. 7,524). It's the kind of disproportionate grouping that epidemiologists call a "cancer cluster." Residents put the blame on local companies that allegedly discharged cancer-causing chemicals into the water supply. Determined to get the situation investigated...
...forward to the whole thing," says my mother-in-law, who lives in a cabin near the tiny hamlet of Emigrant. "It all sounds kind of cozy to me, using candles instead of lightbulbs, toodling over to the neighbors to share their rations." Stockton White, owner of the Lazy Heart Guest Lodge and a volunteer on the Park County search-and-rescue team, is less romantic but just as hopeful. Instead of a softly lighted millennial tea party, White foresees a bucket-brigade atmosphere. "I'm relying on the community. Everyone will pitch in, I expect, fixing each other...