Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senators a day, extracting ironclad promises, not simple assurances, of support. He was aided by his colleagues' misgivings about Johnston's ties to Big Oil interests and Inouye's lackluster television style. Though Johnston made an issue of Mitchell's Northeastern liberalism, it fell flat, even with moderate and Southern Senators who have been trying to prod their party more toward the political center in the wake of Michael Dukakis' defeat...
...actually does have the ability to pull cholesterol out of artery walls, can high levels of HDL reverse the buildup of plaque? There are indications that this may be the case. Last year Dr. David Blankenhorn, director of atherosclerosis research at the University of Southern California, reported on a study in which 162 nonsmoking men who had undergone coronary- bypass surgery were put on a low-fat diet; 80 of them were also treated with niacin and colestipol. Among the drug-treated group, HDL levels increased 37%, while LDL decreased 43% and triglycerides went down 22%. Blankenhorn found evidence that...
...variations of subject and diction. You detect its exterior sign in a steadiness of mood. There are not many emotional ups and downs in Diebenkorn's work, although he certainly does not feign his calm. He finds the world too enjoyable to be detached from it. Life in Southern California (and a durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject of his most impassioned reflections, Matisse. This is apparent in Diebenkorn's figurative drawings...
Maybe Santa will find it in its heart to swing down to southern Florida this month...
Prospects for peace in southern Africa cleared a major hurdle last week as South Africa announced that it had finally agreed in principle to a timetable for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. The Cubans will first move north, then sail for home over the next 27 months. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha described the long-standing issue as "a hard nut, which had to be cracked and now has been cracked...