Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis clung to the fig leaf provided by their dubious budget nostrums. The Vice President escaped serious challenge on his implausible insistence that his so-called flexible freeze of 4% budget growth can accommodate new domestic proposals like $1,000 child-care grants, special-interest tax cuts and muscular military spending. Dukakis, however, was hammered as he repeated his lame argument from the primaries that up to $100 billion can be recovered by vigorous enforcement of existing tax laws. Challenged as to what taxes he would raise as a last resort, Dukakis asked haplessly, "May I disagree with the premise...
...inconsistent, crushing Spain 97-53, Egypt 102-35 and China 108-57, but struggling to subdue Canada 76-70. Against Brazil, which upset the Americans in last year's Pan Am Games final, the U.S. trailed early. But a suffocating full-court defense led by Vernell ("Bimbo") Coles and muscular moves under the basket by J.R. Reid shook the Brazilians' rhythm. By half time the U.S. had moved ahead 63-55, and a 21-7 tear at the start of the second half put the game beyond even the reach of Brazilian superstar Oscar Schmidt, who managed 31 points despite...
Enabling the disabled involves a variety of modifications, some of them minor, some technological marvels. Scott Luber, whose arm mobility was severely impaired by muscular dystrophy, has worked for three years as an accountant using a miniature computer keyboard and a pair of pencils to reach the keys. People afflicted with cerebral palsy prefer oversize keyboards with hard-to-miss, 2-in.-sq. keys. Quadriplegics, who can move only their heads, are nonetheless able to control a computer by using a mouth-held typing stick or a breath-controlled device called a "sip-and-puff " switch. Blind programmers often learn...
...take off to the south, then head west. Below is the Hood Canal, an arm of Puget Sound, and the Navy shipyard at Bremerton. Ahead, partly obscured by clouds, are the Olympic Peninsula and the huge trees and muscular ridges and peaks of Olympic National Park. What we want to see from the air is the Shelton sustained-yield area, a heavily logged region just short of the park, most of it in the Olympic National Forest...
...laws and customs that prevent its sale to willing buyers in most states. The doctrine of prior appropriation has in practice meant "use it or lose it." Thus Utah, for example, diverts Colorado River water for which it has little present use. Other obstacles to water marketing are bureaucratic: muscular interests like Southern California's metropolitan water district and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation tend to view water marketing as a threat to their present service monopolies...