Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration officials take lie-detector tests, they will undergo an experience familiar to accused criminals, suspected leakers and candidates for sensitive jobs both inside and outside Government. The subject is hooked up to the machine with rubber belts placed across the stomach and chest, electrodes attached to the fingertips and a blood-pressure cuff wrapped around the arm. The sensors measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that...
WILLIAM GRAY III. After Ronald Reagan's election, the Philadelphia Congressman quit the House Budget Committee. He felt frustrated with the Democratic leadership and had no stomach to watch a wholesale amputation of social programs. But he returned to the committee this year and proved himself a master at brokering between the leadership and the Congressional Black Caucus to win concessions on social and jobs programs. "If Bill Gray hadn't been there," says Budget Committee Member Panetta, "a lot of those measures would have been in big trouble...
...getting greater exposure." A newfound sense of financial security has also been an aid to creativity. Says he: "There's this myth that the artist has to starve in the attic, but that's romantic nonsense. I can write just as good music on a full stomach as on an empty stomach-and maybe it's even better...
...could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside, but almost certainly the war would go on, and the U.S. would have little stomach...
...process he loses his fiance* Maria, who wants to marry him but refuses to accept his strike-breaking. Participating in the strike demonstrations against Tiao's wishes, Maria gets kicked in the stomach by an undercover company hired hand. We see Maria's blood-covered knees and elbows because she won't compromise her morals for Tiao...