Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential spokesmen sought to minimize the last-minute glitches, which developed as Reagan and his wife Nancy attempted to overcome jet lag and rest up for the start of the summit in Moscow Sunday...
Only the far-right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the other "winner" of the election, with a surprising 14.5% of the vote in the first round, declared full and outright opposition. Le Pen, who on election night pugnaciously called the rest of the political right "suicidal" and the "dumbest in the world" for refusing a pact with him, thrust himself forward as leader of the "national, popular opposition" and the "only real alternative to Socialist power...
...nothing wrong with greed. A variety of diagrams and mathematical formulas is available to show how capitalism usually channels individual greed into productive activity that's good for society as a whole. But, if anything, the Helmsleys ought to be exempt from the forces that stimulate greed in the rest of us. They're already worth an estimated $1.4 billion. They're 67 and 79 years old, with no children. They give to charity generously, but not obsessively. Although the Helmsleys try harder than most other superrich, there's no way they're going to spend what they've already...
...many Hollywood stars, dismisses her as a "media astrologer" because of her many TV appearances. Others in the astrological community grouse that Quigley is too aloof. But Jayj Jacobs, another San Francisco practitioner, asks, "If she's doing astrology for the Reagans, what does she need with the rest of the community...
...detail endearing and unbidden and embarrassing. Ronald Reagan has always been a lucky man. Perhaps he and his wife find that the zodiac is a means to codify, organize and predict his luck. Movie stars are suckers for astrology, partly because their business is even less rational than the rest of American life. Great egos need great horoscopes...