Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget request as the desire to establish credibility with Congress. Vice President Bush has lobbied hard for education increases, hoping they will translate into better showings in the polls. Republican candidates who once had to justify the administration's aid cuts can now breathe a deep sigh of relief...
...white wine. For years union leaders at Labor Day picnics pressured him to stand holding a glass of beer in his hand, but the Governor declined. Aides do not smoke around him. Language is mostly cleaned up in deference to his sense of propriety. There is only small comic relief around Dukakis. He has little sense of irony, and his jokes are as forced in private as on the stump. Says a Dukakis Cabinet officer: "Don't get the idea we hang around Michael. He's not that interesting." But colleagues are exceedingly loyal. They are drawn by his smartness...
That settled, to everyone's relief, athletes and onlookers conserved stamina for another 24 hours and tried again. Next morning the weather was benign. Only the racecourse was horrific: at the top an icy centrifuge of steep, high- speed turns, and past the midpoint, where racers still on their skis carried speeds of 80 m.p.h., a snaky, relatively flat descent over jarring, artificially created bumps and depressions. Luxembourg's two-time World Cup champion Marc Girardelli said that Mount Allan's downhill was the "most difficult in the world," worse than Kitzbuhel's thunderous Hahnenkamm...
...visions of some sort, 42% have been in contact with the dead and 67% have experienced extrasensory perception. Obviously, there are a lot of people out there who believe the spirit of God is touching them. Many of them kneel before a television set and, after experiencing spiritual relief, mail off $10 to an evangelist. Some people who disapprove of this may be spending ten times that amount for time with a therapist or counseling group, with results not necessarily more satisfying. Religious people of various kinds may feel insulted if Robertson's belief is ridiculed. There are many products...
...treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten the end of her life, that is something a physician could live with. Pediatrician Kathleen Nolan, an ethicist at New York's Hastings Center, reports that several of her young patients, suffering terribly from cancer, died in this way. Says Nolan: "There is no dishonor...