Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, as set forth by Secretary of State George Shultz, calls for an international conference on the Middle East, to be held this spring and attended by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Israel and its Arab neighbors. The proposal provides for some degree of self-rule in the occupied territories and sets December 1988 as a deadline for the start of negotiations aimed at reaching a final settlement in which Israel would return occupied lands in exchange for a promise of peace...
Most physicians agree that yearly mammograms in addition to self-examination and regular physical exams can save lives in women over 50; X-ray screening can cut the death rate in this group by 30%. But the benefits of mammography for younger women are less clear. One reason is that younger women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than older women, so there is simply less cancer to detect. In addition, young breast tissue is denser and more likely to conceal tumors from X rays than the more fatty tissue of older women...
...other supporting actors, however, turn in performances which greatly enhance the production. Todd Graff is enjoyable to watch as Larry, the seedy self-styled ladies' man. Larry, tries to expose Nicky to women, alcohol and music. But Larry is the nicest *** you have ever seen, as he takes Nicky out for a night on the town after an emergency at the hospital keeps Gino away on the twins' birthday...
...complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...
...many an unlikely candidate -- Vice President Harry Truman, in particular -- has grown in office and developed into a strong leader. Bush's supporters have already noticed a new authority and self-assurance in their man. As a candidate, he has delighted in exceeding low expectations. As President, he would relish the chance to make his critics eat their words once again. "I suspect that George Bush might surprise people by being bolder than expected," says Mitchell Daniels, a former head of the White House political- liaison office and current chief of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "He might...