Word: strength
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States Supreme Court could determine the criminal-rights legacy of the conservative-leaning Court headed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. On Monday, the Justices decided to hear the appeal of a Florida Supreme Court case, which found that a suspect couldn't be detained simply on the strength of an anonymous tip that he or she is carrying an illegal firearm. Also on Monday, the Clinton administration asked the Court to take up a case that could potentially overturn the so-called Miranda ruling, which demands that defendants be read their rights before they give statements to the police...
...through your old age in good shape," she says. "But these results are logical: If you have a positive sense of self, you are more likely to exercise and to take care of yourself." Specific types of fitness routines are important as we age, adds Gorman. "Studies have shown strength training leads to improved balance, which is crucial to older people, because so often, falls are what land elderly people in the hospital...
...thought the freshmen held their own. They're only going to get better as they get the feel for the pace and strength," Mazzoleni said. "They'll learn the little things you can't do at this level versus how you used to be able to do them at the other level...
...heart, the movie is about family betrayal, the corporate torture of two insiders (Wigand at Brown & Williamson, Bergman at CBS) by the people they worked for and with. Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness. A change in the corporate weather, and the most valued employee is suddenly expendable--an outsider. Do you fight to get back in? Or plot, with only your rancorous conscience as a guide, how to survive, alone, in the cold...
...serves as a reminder, in this age of cynicism, that there is still an American dream. McCourt, at age 66 and after finding the strength to write from the voices of three African-American writers, ultimately achieves that dream with the publication of Angela's Ashes. But the undercurrents of anger and resentment that reverberate through the book show us the raw underbelly of that dream: the humiliation, the loneliness, the despair and the jealousy. McCourt's second novel does not exist as an extension of his first book, devoid of any meaning. Rather, it shows us that the American...