Word: mending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Public Health Service, sounding offended by a chaos that beggared his means to cope. Indeed, for prac- tically everyone in the convention hall, nuclear war would be the ultimate professional frustration, not the ultimate challenge: With suffering and death so vast, whom to rescue and whom to mend? Where to erect the police barricades? Theirs is not so much a fascination with disaster as it is a half-religious, half-martial hankering to see what they can do to help. Nuclear holocaust would be too big to handle. Murphey, for all his quixotic zeal, understands perfectly the indifference...
Gold medals were taken by sophomore Mike Mend (2-0) at 118 lbs., sophomore Kevin McGinty (3-0) at 167 lbs., tri-captain Barry Bausano (2-0) at 177 lbs., and tri-captain Sean Wallace...
...Administration openly "tilted" toward Islamabad during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which Mrs. Gandhi refused to condemn outright, the U.S. began to supply Pakistan with heavy arms aid. Some U.S. officials predicted last week that relations between the two countries, already on the mend, might improve un der Rajiv. And so they may. But they will still be restricted by the fact that the U.S. is committed to providing Pakistan with $3.5 billion in American arms...
Since the rift between China and the Soviet Union began more than two decades ago, it has always been assumed that Moscow would mend fences with Peking before its East bloc allies did. But so far all attempts at rapprochement have foundered. The Chinese complain about the "three obstacles" of Soviet foreign policy: Moscow's support for the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, continuing Soviet involvement in Afghanistan and the massive troop buildup along the Chinese border. The Soviets, for their part, have been irked by the apparent warmth in U.S.-Chinese relations following the Reagan visit to Peking last...
...aware of the nuances of social behavior. It's appalling that young people graduating from Vassar, Harvard and Stanford don't know the meaning of an RSVP. They often don't show up when they're invited, or they show up with a date." To mend their ways, Baldrige charges a sobering $3,500 a lecture, $6,000 for a full-day seminar...