Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistance, hoping that by then the rebels' military progress would attract more support. Such reasoning could be wishful thinking. Last August, the House approved contra aid by a mere twelve votes. Notes Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "A strong President, at the height of his popularity, was just able to drive it through." In the wake of Iranscam, he predicts, "there will be a lot of people saying 'Not this time...
...Lincoln, the moaning continues, he was a "self-made myth." Those school yard taunts about his height haunted him. The Civil War was simply his attempt to overcome a deep-seated fear that he was inadequate...
...Body. Devised for kindergarten through junior high by the American Health Foundation, it uses workbooks, skits and rhymes to handle such topics as choosing "heart- healthy" foods and resisting the bad habits of peers. In addition, youngsters get individual "health passports" on which they can record annual figures for height, weight, blood pressure and blood cholesterol. A surprisingly high cholesterol reading for Houston Sixth-Grader David Hawkins triggered a whole new way of eating for his family. Meals once heavy with beef and fried foods are now dominated by pasta and vegetables. "It's pretty gross," says David...
...than 14 years after the Dow leaped the 1000 mark, the big moment finally arrived. As Big Board floor traders cheered and filled the air with confetti, the closing bell rang last Thursday with the index solidly perched at 2002.25. Then on Friday, after briefly falling from its record height, the Dow rallied to its sixth straight gain of the new year and finished the week...
...back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind of identity problem forced the Cincinnati Reds, America's oldest professional sports team, to change their name to the Redlegs during the height of the cold war. One Cincinnati sportswriter objected on the ground that since the Moscow Reds were the newcomers, they should be asked to change their name...