Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again and again, Turner hammered at his main theme: "Mr. Mulroney wants to turn us into the 51st state...
...search of festivity, the off-season is one long calendar of celebrations. There are rituals of planting and harvesting, the autumn wine festivals in Burgundy, the pre-Lenten carnivals of Venice and Portugal, the Vienna winter balls. In most countries, while summer is reserved for rest and recreation, the main cultural and social season runs from fall to spring. Vienna's opera and symphony seasons open with daily performances in September and last until June, while La Scala in Milan runs from December through June. The London theater season offers some of its freshest performances and premieres in the fall...
...exclusive interview with chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Ross Johnson, accompanies the main story. Senior correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer and his wife were about to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with 20 friends in Roxbury, Conn., when he received word that Johnson, who has refused all public comment since launching his takeover bid in mid-October, was ready to talk. Ungeheuer left immediately for Jupiter, Fla., where Johnson was spending a holiday away from the fray, for a one-hour talk about the megadeal. Ungeheuer has met other big dealmakers in his 25 years of covering business for TIME...
...Vatican's main target in the U.S. was Dignity, an organization for gay Catholics that had been allowed to hold special Masses in many dioceses. Prodded by the San Francisco chapter, one of Dignity's largest (250 members), Dignity's next national convention responded defiantly to Rome, declaring that "gay and lesbian people can express their sexuality physically, in a unitive manner that is loving, life-giving and life-affirming...
While emotional concerns can upset this process, most trouble results from physical problems. In young men, injury is the main cause of loss of potency. "Coming down hard on the narrow seat of a ten-speed bicycle can damage the arteries or the nerves," says urologist Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine, who recently chaired an international conference on impotence research. But the vast majority of impotent men -- most are above age 55 -- are victims of poor habits or illness. Alcoholism, for example, can deaden nerves. Cigarette smoking can reduce blood flow to the penis by constricting vessels...