Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hate to be simplistic, but Ronald Reagan is perceived as a leader, even by people who dislike him. Reagan is successful because he's an ideologue, because he's a man who has been willing to lose if necessary. It gives him a certain strength...
...good ten years older than most trainees. This seventh of ten children had played a ferocious game of volleyball until a professor of physical education noticed that the young man had the body of a discus thrower: long arms and legs, bulk (286 Ibs.) and strength (a chest circumference of 51 in.). These raw materials remain uncoached; Egypt, which has not had an Olympic medalist since 1960, spends little on developing its amateur athletes. Says Neguib: "I do not know how to get the maximum power from my body. My movements are still rough." His full-time...
...life may be found too ordinary for his glory: born 23 years ago in Birmingham, he was raised in Willingboro, N.J., and trained in Houston. Where Lewis is a standard of physical strength, Jesse Owens was a symbol of human struggle, against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with...
...generous and supportive traveling companion. For the first two decades of the postwar years, highly favorable exchange rates made vacationing abroad, particularly in Europe, a bargain that more and more Americans could not resist. Then in the late '60s and into the '70s, the growing strength of foreign economies and a weakening dollar sent prices skyhigh, transforming the trip abroad into an expensive, even prohibitive luxury...
Even though the dollar's strength works tirelessly for the tourist, experts have a few tips on how to get the most for the money. They advise travelers, for example, to use credit cards rather than cash. Reason: giants like American Express buy foreign currencies at the most favorable rates before paying foreign merchants, and then pass some of the savings to cardholders when billing them in dollars for their purchases abroad. Traveler's checks also generally earn better rates than cash because they are easier and cheaper to process. In addition, tourists can gain...