Word: robustly
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With the age question dogging Reagan, the White House released the full results of a medical checkup on the President last May at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The supervising examiner concluded that "Mr. Reagan is a mentally alert, robust man who appears younger than his stated age." The report noted some "diminished auditory acuity" (Reagan wears a small hearing aid in his right ear) and the presence of a small, benign polyp in his colon. The President takes weekly injections for allergies, but no other medicine. Reagan aides reminded reporters that Mondale takes three pills a day for high blood...
Reagan has aged less visibly in office than most of his modern predecessors. Indeed, his robust example may undermine the notion that age necessarily saps vigor. Said Spar: "Nowadays people between 65 and 75 are statistically more like young people than they are like old people." At about age 75, many people cross a vaguely defined line between what gerontologists call "young-old" and "old-old." They become less vigorous and more infirm. But doctors caution that the effects of aging vary greatly from person to person, and that Reagan is on the young side...
...month in the first half of 1984, but last week the Semiconductor Industry Association said they fell to $843 million in September. Nonetheless, the industry remains optimistic. Says Zieber: "We are entering a period of adjustment from the very strong market of the past six quarters into something less robust. But we don't expect things to fall apart, because we don't expect the economy to fall apart." Indeed, with the rebound still full of vigor, semiconductor makers are happy to let the chips fall where they...
...aging men of the Politburo may have seen Reagan, robust both physically and politically right now, as some kind of threat. Reagan listened and watched Gromyko as he had rarely scrutinized a man before; looking for clues from words, from eyes, from a touch or handclasp...
...Supreme Court gave sweeping protection to the press in New York Times vs. Sullivan. To "encourage robust debate," the high court so broadened the definition of libel that journalists were given license to say almost anything they wanted about public officials (but not about private citizens). In order to sue successfully for libel, a public official had to prove "actual malice," which the court defined as reporting that was known to be false or showed a "reckless disregard" for the truth. In the wake of the Sullivan decision, judges initially threw out cases involving public figures before they...