Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing everything at once. Why? Fear. A Washington adage says members of Congress care about only three things: getting re-elected, getting re-elected and getting re-elected. When Republicans returned from their July 4 recess, a privately distributed poll by G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin showed that voters would prefer a Democrat to a Republican as their representative by 5 percentage points. In 1994 it took only a 2-point advantage the other way round for Republicans to win control of the House and the Senate...
...this important? A virtually identical pattern of biochemical activity, Di Chiara's group had earlier established, accompanies injections of cocaine, amphetamines and morphine. The brain, in other words, appears to make no distinction between addictive drugs and what smokers prefer to think of as just a bad habit...
...might be more equitable if those older citizens who happen to be millionaires aren't having their Social Security provided by young couples who can barely support themselves. In both cases, though, I'd bet that the people who seem to be getting a free ride would prefer to keep things the way they...
American Presidents, from Abe Lincoln to Jimmy Carter, have expressed a softer side by writing poetry. French Presidents prefer love stories. Valery Giscard d'Estaing even penned an erotic novel. Now a novella by FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, written in 1940 when he was 23 and in the army, has been auctioned for $7,600. Premier Accord is the story of a young man's love for Elsa, who is "supple, gay, effervescent...a Persian at the sword, her pink curves like a jar of hair cream." Pardon...
There is no doubt that prayer relieves illness for some. However, since many of the most frequent causes of premature death are avoidable, the more prudent individual will prefer prevention to prayer. PAUL D. GEIGER Cumming, Georgia...