Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider this bizarre, but typical, routine from the 1988 presidential campaign: Bob Dole's Iowa campaign director often sleeps in Omaha or Moline, Ill. Or this more cynical aspect: young, fresh-faced volunteers for candidates in Iowa or New Hampshire sometimes receive their living expenses off the books, being handed $20 bills in out-of-the-way motel rooms...
...abilities of their fund raisers. That is the underlying truth of presidential politics: it is extremely difficult to win without early money, as Gary Hart came to learn in 1984. This imbalance in resources may be unfortunate, but it is a problem that will not be rectified through ill-conceived campaign- spending limits...
...Ronald Reagan feverishly lobbied lawmakers to renew aid to the Nicaraguan contras last week, he found himself cast in a strange, ill-fitting role. Not so long ago, the President displayed an uncanny knack for dazzling Congressmen with his charm and righteousness, even as he squeezed painful concessions out of them. But last week the once cocky cajoler seemed humble, even desperate. To some he was a figure of pathos. "I felt almost bad for him," said Democratic Congressman Roy Dyson of Maryland, one of several lawmakers who met with Reagan in the Oval Office last week. "I remember...
...J.A.M.A. account of Debbie's death also underscores a fact of medical life: terminally ill cancer patients often suffer unnecessarily because doctors hold back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
Spencer S. Hsu's article entitled "Asian-American Admissions: Subtle Discrimination Reflected in Admissions" (February 11, 1988) is an emotional outburst that is based upon ill-founded premises and which proposes an illogical solution. Hsu concludes that because admission rates for Asian-Americans are less than that of their white peers, Harvard is guilty of racial discrimination. Although he admits Harvard has no quota system, Hsu claims that Harvard's standard for admission places the "average" Asian-American applicant at a disadvantage, and thus, indirectly practices racial discrimination. Hsu demands that Harvard eliminate this difference in acceptance rates; if this...