Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard this as World War III," says Marberger. "I'm fighting it with every resource I have." Indeed, each of these men, in his own way, has found reserves of courage and strength in the battle against the virus. For New York Musician Callen, the battle is providing a new sense of purpose. He admits that he is "happier than I have ever been. I hate being sick, but I don't have time to be obsessed about death." It is an attitude that provides a glimmer of hope amid the devastation being wrought by AIDS...
Russians have always loved their books profoundly. Literature has sometimes sustained the Russians when almost everything else was gone. During the siege of Leningrad, the city's population, frozen and starving down to the verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on the radio from the works of Pushkin and other writers. "Never before nor ever in the future," said a survivor, "will people listen to poetry as did Leningrad in that winter -- hungry, swollen and hardly living." Today Russians will fill a stadium to hear a poetry reading...
...turn on the cover, as did Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, the eventual winner. The proliferation and unpredictability of primary elections have made us more cautious over the years. When Robert Dole took the Iowa caucuses last February, we wanted to see more evidence of his strength before making him a cover choice. Sure enough, Dole lost in New Hampshire to George Bush. The Vice President's 1988 campaign efforts did not make the cover until after his Super Tuesday sweep of 16 primaries on March...
...chat with him occasionally about how things are going," Estrich said. "But I think John realizes that the strength of this campaign is the candidate...
...Reagan Administration has failed to reach much of the country with its economic gains, but its irresponsible fiscal policy managed to mortgage the entire country's economic strength and future. Reaganomics is not even a shining success by supply-side standards--the president has all but ignored his campaign promises to balance the budget and slash government spending. The recent period of economic growth has been tempered by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the panic on Wall Street, the rise of the "twin towers" (the budget and trade deficits) and a trillion dollar jump in the national debt...