Word: relax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike most skating events, the Jimmy Fund is purely an exhibition show. There are no judges, so the skaters can relax and enjoy performing. "It's one of the few times they get to go on vacation. We have parties for them, not blow-outs or anything, but they have fun," Frates says...
Discovery commander Rick Hauck promptly answered with a laconic "Roger go," bringing a smattering of applause and cheers that grew into a chorus near the two-minute mark, when the spacecraft successfully jettisoned its two spent solid rocket boosters. But experienced space observers did not relax until Discovery shut down its three main engines 6 1/2 minutes later, shucked off its external fuel tank, then slipped safely into orbit about 180 miles above the earth a half hour later. Declared elated space engineer John Kaltenbach: "This was the one that had to fly. It looks damn good. Oh, it just...
Even monogamy is highly overrated in a President. If Eisenhower (perhaps) or Franklin Roosevelt (for sure) needed the company of a mistress or John Kennedy a procession of bimbettes to help him relax, the better to carry on his stewardship of the country, I'm not sure that the country ought to complain. A + wife certainly has the right to, but the electorate is paying for a chief executive, not a spouse...
...driven black woman. "She is one of the most directed people I know," says Dori Wilson, a Chicago publicist. "She wants to go straight to the top." Yet she is trying to relax a bit, cutting back on her travel and free- lance good deeds. "I used to take every phone call from a guy who said he would jump off a building if I didn't talk to him. But I no longer feel compelled to aid every crazy. For two years I have done everything everyone asked me to do. I am now officially exhausted." And unofficially still...
Gorbachev dominates an extraordinary Communist Party gabfest, part town meeting and part gripe session. Delegates endorse the Soviet leader' s plan for a presidential system that could relax the Communist Party' s grip...