Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolls. "What about elderly health care?" a woman asked. Babbitt's mind rushed to thoughts about his father, who lies seriously ill in Flagstaff, Ariz. "He's 89 years old," Babbitt softly tells her, "and he doesn't have a lot of time left." Though Babbitt often returns to sit by his father's side, each departure rekindles the personal pangs. "It's a very poignant time in my life," he says. "It keeps me human...
...will lend their regime prestige, argue that until the U.S. forthrightly announces its support for the Guatemala plan, it is not entitled to participate in regional negotiations. "Why should we let Reagan take part?" asks Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. "He doesn't welcome us to sit in on his talks when he meets with other nations...
...into the mottled green hills behind his house on the edge of Cebu. No more. "It's a no-man's-land," he says. "Army helicopters buzz here every morning." In February 1986 Oposa and his friends danced in the streets when Aquino came to power. Now they often sit around his comfortable home and complain about the way the country is run. The lawyer sometimes ends the discussions with rueful sarcasm: "Well, at least we have freedom...
...Harvard Business School will send 450 students on nine buses. Bus coordinator Deborah L. Devedjian, a second-year business student who graduated from Yale, said the reason for encouraging students to go to The Game is to "show people that they went to the wrong school. I definitely will sit on the Yale side...
...last time I would sit in that U-shaped wind tunnel...