Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plotting began, so quietly, not long after the last presidential campaign ended, if not always by Bush himself, then by those close to him. When the subject came up with their 5,000 closest friends, his parents suggested, ever so graciously, that they might not want to invest in any other candidates until they saw what young George was going to do. Michigan Governor John Engler, meanwhile, was recruiting a mighty power base among the nation's G.O.P. Governors, the only Republicans who got away with their shirts after the 1998 elections. From his nest down in Austin, campaign guru...
...well-known estrogenlike drug, tamoxifen, which can increase the risk of uterine cancer. "A new study is now under way to compare the benefits and risks of the two drugs," says Gorman. The perfect designer estrogen has yet to be found, she notes, but researchers? immense interest in the subject should provide women with an increasing set of options in the years ahead...
Then there were the bigger-than-life moments in dealing with writers who are legends in the making. Harold Bloom, fresh from his widely praised rumination on Shakespeare, lent us his magisterial tone for the essay on Billy Graham--a subject Bloom is familiar with from his close study of American religion. He was hardly the distant don, with his infectiously warm phone manner, addressing everyone as "my dear" while dropping invitations...
...while I am on the subject of advice, here's some more...
...example, at Princeton a committee that includes students, faculty, administrators and staff--in sharp contrast to Harvard empowering Knowles, subject to approval by the corporation--determines the rate, taking numerous factors into account...