Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope and opportunity." In rhetoric that was almost flamboyantly rhapsodic, the President described his vision as "a revolution carrying us to new heights of progress by pushing back frontiers of knowledge and space; a revolution of spirit that taps the soul of America, enabling us to summon greater strength than we've known...
...ebbed much more slowly in the rest of the world, was one factor. The pileup of debt in poor countries during the 1970s, and the difficulties they have had in repaying it during the '80s, has crimped their ability to buy American-grown food. The remarkable strength of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies is perhaps the biggest cause of all; it forces overseas buyers to pay out more francs, pounds or yen to buy American wheat, corn or soybeans. The muscle-bound dollar is primarily an ironic consequence of gargantuan U.S. budget deficits, which keep American interest rates high...
When one victim, John, 30, arrived from Uganda in poor physical condition, weighing less than 80 lbs., the Toronto center arranged medical and psychiatric help. A nutritionist taught him and his family how to adapt to new foods. To rebuild his strength, one volunteer taught him to swim and got him access to a private pool. Cowgill, who urged John to call any time he needed to talk, got him a job as a telephone installer, the trade he practiced back home. "A job is so central to these survivors," she says, "because it gives meaning to their lives...
...Department of Defense this week in testimony before the Senate and House Armed Services committees. Mild- mannered and equably spoken but adamant as always, he gave TIME a preview of his argument. The U.S., he said in an interview, faces a Soviet Union "with a growing military strength, almost all of it offensive in nature. And while you're not precisely sure where they will test you, you have to have an ability to project (military power) rapidly to various parts of the world. This includes the requirement that you may have to be ready to fight in more than...
...original disease. That would seem to rule out the polio virus as the culprit. A more likely cause may be the toll taken on healthy nerve cells by years of overcompensating for those destroyed by the disease. Many polio survivors, says Perry, "are functioning at 50% of their muscle strength most of the time, whereas healthy people stay under 20%." For this reason, the nerve cells of post-polio patients are subjected to extraordinary strain...