Word: john
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...John Beverly, 42, a Viet Nam veteran, suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, which includes sudden flashbacks of battlefield terror. Last week two administrative-law judges in Wisconsin awarded Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found...
...evolved that should help them in their quest -- helioseismology, which, simply stated, involves "listening" to the interior of the sun as it bubbles, gurgles and swirls. The entire outer third of the sun is a seething ocean of gas, constantly churned by thermal convection. And convection, says astronomer John Harvey of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak, "is a very noisy process. So the sun makes noise, just as a pot of water does as it boils...
...Reilly pressed for stringent measures; budget boss Richard Darman argued that the cost did not justify the health and environmental benefits. Bush attended three of those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced option papers to Camp David on Saturday, June 10. He and the President went over them line by line on Sunday, making the final decisions...
...credits and consulting fees were doled out to prominent Republicans and a handful of rich developers. Pierce stood idly by as his executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean, 35, turned over contracts to firms that enlisted Washington insiders as consultants. They included Dean's close friend former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Interior Secretary James Watt...
...theme of youthful impertinence, especially Chang's, rang through the tournament and carried for a distance. "It's embarrassing," grumbled John McEnroe all the way from England, where preparing for grassy Wimbledon seemed a more profitable exercise than adding to 34 years of U.S. desperation on French clay. Since Tony Trabert succeeded at Paris in 1955, not one of the grand Americans -- not Stan Smith, not Arthur Ashe, not Jimmy Connors, not McEnroe -- had ever won the French. And the brazen way Chang finally did it galled McEnroe, 30, who muttered the fairly amazing statement, "We've got to teach...