Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take many more weeks to determine just how Reagan, physically and mentally grazed by death, will really behave. A President will always be a target of sorts. And Reagan will go to work each day with his scars to remind him of that sad truth. But so far, there is every reason to believe that this President will heal, and be stronger than before...
...distribution of wealth, he pointed out, depends almost as much on luck as on energy, foresight and skill. It is only the luck of the world if one is born in the country club district of Kansas City instead of the Sahel or Bangladesh. It is the sad luck of things for a Colorado oil millionaire if his youngest child, by mishaps of the psyche, turns out to harbor some fetid, lovesick ambition to kill the President...
...work to behavior modification. Now U.S. businessmen are surprised to learn from the Japanese that it is not only more humane but far more productive to treat employees as human beings by giving them not only the dignity but the respect that they deserve. It is a true, but sad, commentary on American life and industry...
This now-familiar commercial jingle tells the sad tale of the U.S. automobile industry's inability to compete with its Japanese counterparts' successful invasion of the domestic market. Japanese auto-makers' skill in producing relatively inexpensive, fuel-inefficient cars has provided the only solution for many American families stricken by exorbitant prices of gasoline. Thousands upon thousands have passed up our time-honored petropigs for the smaller, less expensive models...
...asked a thing in class." (Hinckley did, however, choose to specialize: one paper focused on Hitler's Mein Kampf, his other on Auschwitz.) Says Mark Swafford, one of his Lubbock landlords: "I only saw him with another human being one time." Hinckley's student life was a sad, remote vigil. "Everywhere there were empty bags from hamburger joints and cartons of ice cream," says Swafford. "He just sat there the whole time, staring...