Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to hop aboard, be warned that you will end up talking like this, from an anonymous testimonial that Covey reprints: "With habits 4, 5 and 6, my husband and I are seeking each other's exploration." Or this, from a dad whose daughter had a temper tantrum: "I consciously helped provide her with experiences where synergy really worked. And this enabled her to develop the courage and belief that if she pushed her own pause button and hung in there with us, it would pay off." The daughter is seven years...
...woke up nine hours later feeling terrific. The drug had worked immediately--no waiting period--and it continued to work night after night. What's more, my days were different. Brighter. Smoother. My famously spiky temper tapered off. Like a headache one doesn't know he has until it's gone away, my serotonin deficiency revealed itself only once a drug had filled...
WASHINGTON: Be it penance or politics, Bill Clinton is really getting behind the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. While Minority Leader Tom Daschle was throwing a procedural temper tantrum over Republican stalling on the bill Tuesday, Clinton dropped an even bigger bombshell ? by writing to Trent Lott and threatening to call Congress into special session unless the bill gets some hearty October debate...
Polo pros and local patrones describe Villegas as a good-natured man who never lost his temper, even during rough-and-tumble matches. "He just wanted to have fun," says Bart Frye, a patrone. Villegas did have fun with Cummings. She is said to have bought polo ponies from him; a good pony can sell for up to $20,000. She had fun too. By the beginning of this year the pair were often seen on the circuit holding hands. Through the summer, the couple played in matches side by side. In a game still dominated by men, the sight...
...readers of paying $210,000 for them: "It was a big payday for photog Mario Brenna, who stands to make as much as $3 million worldwide." Lured by such sums, paparazzi are resorting to ever more aggressive tactics--sometimes even provoking confrontations with stars in order to catch their temper tantrums on film. "About a year ago there was a real increase in invasive kinds of pictures," says Valerie Virga, photo editor for the National Enquirer, "people really going over the edge to get the picture--climbing roofs, scaling buildings, super-super long lenses into people's backyards...