Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution of these tensions should be found in the Oval Office. But Reagan has found it extremely difficult to assert himself as either a moderator or a decision maker. A number of decisions he has announced, including the most recent INF initiative, were compromises jerry-rigged from competing options favored by the different agencies...
...until her triumphant 1950 comeback as Sunset Boulevard's aging actress Norma Desmond. "You used to be big," the silent-screen star is told. "I am big," intones Swanson unforgettably. "It's the pictures that got small." Married six times, enthusiastic about health foods and natural cosmetics, maker and spender of millions, she never got small. In her final film role (Airport 1975), she portrayed herself. It was the role she never misplayed...
March 21, 3:38 p.m.--The delivery door at Hillel House was vandalized with a magic maker. No suspicious persons were seen and no arrests have been made...
After researchers at the Syntex Corp. produced the first oral contraceptive in 1951, the small pharmaceuticals maker grew within a few years into a large conglomerate (fiscal year 1982 revenues: $813 million). A host of other companies has made fortunes supplying what is now a huge U.S. contraceptives market. A small firm in California called V.L.I. hopes to join their ranks with a new kind of contraceptive that is likely to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration within a month...
...walk away," he says. He found salvation in a Radio Shack computer, which he now uses to keep track of the personal and familial problems of his flock. Voosen also charts the membership of his seven choirs, Sunday school, nursery school and church committees. "It's no miracle maker," he says. "But it sure makes life easier...