Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odds of race and circumstance stacked against him, Ronald McNair attended segregated schools in Lake City, S.C. (current pop. 5,636), and itched to explore a world beyond and above his own. Irene Jones, his first- grade teacher, remembered him as a bright loner who, on the playground, would "lie flat on his back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked...
...purchased several machines, which he placed on his screened-in porch. "If I want to work out at 3 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning, I can do it," he says. "And I don't have to wait for a machine. And I don't have to lie down in somebody else's sweat." Even health-club dropouts without a great deal of space manage to find ways to work out at home. Architect David Rockwell, who lives in a Manhattan studio, keeps a fold-up mini-trampoline in the closet and an exercise bicycle in the entryway...
...next project will be planning my springbreak in the Caribbean," says Gutwillig. "I haveno idea what I'd like to do when I graduate and itdoesn't concern me that much... that's a lie. Itconcerns me a lot but I just don't know. I wouldonly continue to do benefits if I could learn totake it less personally...
...TIME last week: "I try to give him my best advice and recommendations . . . but the President gives the leadership, and we try to work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once has Shultz publicly questioned a Reagan decision--involving not foreign policy but lie-detector tests for Administration officials--and then it was the President who bowed to Shultz's insistence that he would quit if he ever had to take...
...reason that Reagan continues to capture the national fancy is his seeming eternal youth. He simply will not lie down and act his age. When he went to the hospital the other day for his colon checkup, he had been off solid food for 24 hours. After then enduring all the indignities of a thorough exam, he gave a thumbs up, climbed into his helicopter for Camp David, ate a hearty meal and announced to his weary companions that they would all see a movie...