Word: mends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More importantly, the Democrats simply will reinforce their current image of disunity and disorganization. The pall of the Carter Administration will extend to the darkest corners of the beer stands in Madison Square Garden: Liberty, Justice and Incompetence for all. The president, who hopes to mend fences with Kennedy when the campaign ends, may find it difficult even to shake hands with Ted at the convention podium...
...Armistead and Schmidt want to start spending their Monday nights at city council, they should begin soon--the crucial vote may be on how the institutional expansion guidelines are to be drawn, and that could take place late next fall, not much time to mend some fences that have fallen into disrepair. "For years everyone on the city council has been abusing Harvard verbally--it will be interesting to see how much was show, and how many will vote to really stick it to them," one city councilor, who asked not to be identified, said. "Even if they do start...
...meantime, Anwar Sadat made an abortive effort to mend fences with his old allies and bankrollers, the Saudi Arabians, who had broken with him over his negotiations with Israel. Sadat announced that he was ready to go to Riyadh to talk with the Saudi leaders, but the Saudis quickly rebuffed him and brought an abrupt end to his proffered friendship. In a stinging speech the next night, Sadat reverted to form and assailed the Saudis as well as Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad. Shouted Sadat to a meeting of provincial officials...
More conventional techniques have their place too: "Western medicine is a limited healing system, as is mine," he says. "I can't mend a broken bone. But today's grad schools are turning out psychotechnicians who see people as objects, children as objects to be raised, adults as objects to be actualized, realized, healed, fixed. But that doesn't work, for humans are a constantly changing, moment-to-moment process. You can't buy healing...
Trying to mend her wounds and to stay in shape for the spring outdoor season, Taylor took up swimming and bicycling this past winter. But, though this Kat can swim, she doesn't enjoy it much...