Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were other stories that inspired heavy mail: 251 correspondents lamented the decline of quality rock music, 399 had opinions on mid-life pregnancies, and 357 commented on the Aug. 30 cover on fitness for women, "Coming On Strong: The New Ideal of Beauty." Said one lady jock: "Thanks for expressing so well what athletic women like me have known for a long time: exercise is the best makeup." But another reader was not convinced: "Can it be true that a pretty girl is like geometry...
...substantive results they render. Legal procedures are seldom if ever truly sufficient to rectify past wrongs, especially when blood has been shed. But when the sanctions associated with these legal procedures offer no meaningful promise of deterring individuals from future wrongs, they become a mockery of the ideal of justice rather than the best that justice can provide under less than ideal circumstances. The probability that Sharon will remain in the Israeli Cabinet, and that the furor over the Commission report will obscure the collective capability of the Israeli leadership for the broader violations of law and morality...
Powers more relaxed view of ideal union-management relations may actually be the cause of some of his conflicts with the union. Powers notes that, in his first meeting--and only meeting to date--with Bozzotto, the union president criticized Power's relationships with former union officials which he believes were too cordial...
...Will Always Stay Me: Writing of Migrant Children would seem an ideal opportunity for a soapbox edition of children's poetry. A collaboration between Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, and Sherry Kafka, a former Loeb Fellow, the anthology was born in a creative workshop program in South Texas elementary and high schools, where most of the students are from Mexican immigrant families and speak English as a foreign language. And yet Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing...
...body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination and judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial pilot on such medication would automatically be grounded. Says he: "Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA...