Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heightened health consciousness. Physical health has become an end in itself, rather than a means to other personal goals, and living a meaningful life has been reduced to a health problem. Health is an imperative, a sort of super-value which stands for personal achievement, social esteem and strength of character...
Wedtech, whose net revenues jumped from nearly $10 million in 1981 to $117 million last year largely on the strength of Government contracts, issued stock publicly for the first time in August 1983. Nofziger and his partner Mark Bragg, who had been retained by Wedtech as public relations consultants, had each received 22,500 shares of the stock, then worth $360,000 at $16 per share. Jenkins quit the White House in May 1984, began consulting for Wedtech in October 1985, and now is the company's Washington representative...
...loss of the Senate was partly mitigated for the Republicans by a gain of eight governorships. Indeed, there was no overall partisan cast to the results. Democratic Senate candidates in the South and West showed surprising strength, but so did Republican gubernatorial candidates in the South. Nevertheless, by losing the Senate, Reagan and the Republicans lost the national political momentum they had been building during the 1980s...
...Republican gains could provide the party with significant organizational strength for the 1988 presidential campaigns. But as New Hampshire Republican Governor John Sununu notes, "The easiest way to build up party structure is to hold the statehouses." And at this more basic level, Democrats picked up about 180 state legislative seats nationally, and will apparently control both chambers of the legislatures in 27 states, one more than at present. Republicans will dominate both houses in just nine states, two fewer than before...
...mazes of her politics with easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old -- a country crowded, strained, perplexed -- when she will be obliged . . . to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members...