Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After he retired from his road-paving business in Miami, Russell Carter, 63, acted on a lifelong dream. On five acres of sparsely settled land 20 miles west of the city, he set up a rural retreat, built a ranch house, landscaped the plot around it and stocked four new fresh-water ponds with fish. Ever since, Carter has been in deep trouble...
...Music was supposed to be highly organized. "Gestures," "events" and "new sounds," to use the jargon of the period, preoccupied composers as they sought new ways of structuring pieces-often forgetting that music should appeal to more than the intellect. Harbison struggled to combine innovative musical architecture with his lifelong love of melody...
...specialist who works with Harrison: "Even if the mother wants to have the baby, what do you do if you open up the womb and find the problem is much worse than you feared? Do you save the baby, even though it may be severely handicapped and require extensive lifelong medical care?" Fetal surgery also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they can do surgery on a fetus, then it is in fact a baby." Calling that...
...lifelong Hawaii resident, I read with concern your article "We've Lost the 'Aloha' Feeling" [June 1]. As you reported, two teenagers recently hijacked a busload of Japanese visitors. However, you failed to mention that the community contributed more than $22,000 to assist the victims, a sum twice that lost in the robbery. Later, when the stolen cash and valuables were returned, the Japanese donated the money to a special fund to assist visitors who become victims. No, the aloha feeling has not been lost...
Fans across the country were dismayed. The rituals of baseball are a mainstay of American life, and some lifelong habits were disrupted by the strike. Said Lester Wilson, an optometrist from East Point, Ga.: "An old man like me, baseball's all I get a kick out of. I'm sick about it. I won't have anything to do at night...