Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does it cover long-term home care -- a gap that Claude Pepper, the 87- year-old champion of the elderly, tried to fill with his complementary bill. At $4.5 billion by 1990, the Pepper proposal appealed more to the heart than to reason. "This is a day for which I've waited and worked and I might say prayed for 50 years," Pepper declared in an impassioned plea to his colleagues on the day of the vote. "Think about the human values...
...hands-and-knees gardener, recently decided to sow wildflowers like those she remembers seeing from train windows as she toured the country with her plays. "They won't bow to one's wishes," she says with grudging admiration. "They don't want to be tamed. That must be the reason these darling, lovely little things won't cooperate...
...Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring in" and "probably the workingman's biggest friend...
...that is no reason for sorrow. The wonder of gardening is not what is grown but the process of growing, being able to watch things growing and dying and being reborn. Perhaps the first real pleasure, though, is simply tactile -- the sense, when one bends on one's knees on a warm spring morning, of the vast solid mass under one's hands, the thick, flat rotundity of the earth. Or perhaps the first real pleasure is a vision of possibilities. Three yellow roses might look good here; there's room for some tomatoes over there, or perhaps...
...whys have it. Those close to Mario Cuomo say a major reason he did not make the race was his inability to frame a rationale for his candidacy. It all comes back to the old Roger Mudd why-are-you-running question that reduced Ted Kennedy to stutters in 1979. Whatever their faults as campaigners, both Michael Dukakis and George Bush could handle these whys-guy queries. Bush declared himself the designated heir to Reaganism and a man whose resume had earned a final line. For Dukakis, the White House represented a chance to sprinkle Massachusetts Miracle...