Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things," Meyers recalls. Morale became so bad that the Nixon people added another public relations man to the staff to entertain reporters. "One of his talents was making funny little animals out of balloons," Meyers laughs. "But once you've seen one little animal, you've satisfied a lifetime need...
...lips" and "kick a little ass"). He seems to regard words as dangerous, potentially treacherous. Odd: it is a tenet of conservative intellectuals that "ideas have consequences." Bush sometimes sounds as if he regards ideas, and words, as an inconvenience and an irritation -- perverse, buzzing little demons that need to be brushed away periodically like flies...
...October 1979, in desperate need of treatment, the Shah was allowed to enter the U.S. temporarily. By the time he checked into New York Hospital, he had an international collection of physicians. Shawcross's last chapters reverberate with the clash of medical opinions and large egos. When things sorted out, the Shah was back in Egypt, where his spleen was removed by the renowned Texas heart surgeon Michael DeBakey. The procedure also revealed fatal malignancies of the liver...
...shrinking pool of college-age youngsters. To fill half-empty lecture halls -- and depleted coffers -- schools have actively begun to court members of the over-25 set. At the same time, the shift toward service industries and advanced technology has made higher education attractive to workers who want or need to upgrade their careers. "The changing world of work brings lots of people back," says Harvey Stedman, dean of New York University's School of Continuing Education, one of the oldest and largest adult programs in the country...
...paid for all the finery, the First Lady would, of course, have no need to report her purchases. Elaine Crispen, Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, said last week that the First Lady told her she has bought all the clothes she has worn since early 1982. Mrs. Reagan also told Crispen that since then she has not borrowed or been given any dresses...