Word: mends
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When James Watt was Secretary of the Interior, his style was so abrasive and his handling of the environment so aggressively controversial that conservation groups gave him an overall grade of F and demanded his ouster. In an effort to mend fences with environmentalists and to restore peace at the Department of the Interior, the Reagan Administration brought in former National Security Adviser William Clark last October as Watt's replacement. Now, on the first anniversary of Clark's succession, two activist organizations, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, see only a small improvement over...
...brain's supply of dopamine, that his symptoms were "melting away." Visitors, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said that Ali was entertaining other patients with magic tricks and seemed to be his old ebullient self. Before leaving the hospital for a trip to the Sudan, Ali vowed to mend his ways. "I'll get all my business done by 10, get to sleep at 10:30 and sleep till 6," he declared...
Ironically, the Air Florida bankruptcy comes just as the airline industry seems to be on the mend. After operating losses totaling some $1.2 billion since 1981, scheduled U.S. carriers could earn more than $1 billion this year. That turnaround reflects shrunken payrolls and the dramatically improved economy. Nonetheless, some airlines, like Republic and Western, have continued to struggle. Says former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Mar vin Cohen: "It's possible there will be a further shake-out in the industry...
...military aid cutoff if the soldiers try to overturn the election result. "The military leaders have said that they now realize their job is to stay out of politics and fight this war," says a State Department official. Declares the Salvadoran army chief of operations, Colonel Miguel Antonio Mendéz: "In my opinion, the word coup has to disappear from our vocabulary...
French Premier Pierre Mauroy came away from his session with Chernenko, whom he had met in Paris two years ago, confident that Soviet-French relations were on the mend. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had the feeling that the new Soviet leadership was "weighing its words." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau saw hope in the fact that "there was a repetition of the use of the word détente and a real continuity with the Brezhnev spirit." But Chernenko gave Western leaders no hint that the Soviet Union was about to change its position on the new NATO missiles...