Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEN my roommate got his draft notice. I thought it was a Lampoon prank; I heard other people offer the same explanation. We were all wrong though; it was far less funny than most financially and academically protected pranks...
...Dinkins, 62, is a classic clubhouse politician who spent 35 years loyally trudging up the Democratic Party ladder while more dynamic black leaders overshadowed him. Seemingly content to forge a career based more on amiability than activism, he had never displayed the ruthless ambition and toughness most New Yorkers thought it took to reach the top. Says his old friend and former Deputy Mayor Basil Patterson: "David was always showing...
...perhaps the most authoritative survey to date, scientists say Alzheimer's may be up to twice as common as was previously thought. A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that as many as one in ten people over 65 and, astonishingly, nearly half of those over 85 may have the disease. That would raise the number of Americans thought to be afflicted from 2.5 million to 4 million. "I was astounded," said Dr. Eric Larson of the University of Washington, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "Still, as with any startling finding, it needs...
...world has, or thought it had, become accustomed to change in Eastern Europe, where every week brings developments that would have seemed unbelievable a short while earlier. Nonetheless, the opening of the Wall caught it off guard. President George Bush, who summoned reporters into the Oval Office Thursday afternoon, declared himself "very pleased" but seemed oddly subdued. Aides attributed that partly to his natural caution, partly to uncertainty about what the news meant, largely to a desire to do or say nothing that might provoke a crackdown in East Germany. As the President put it, "We're handling...
...still playing on the power play because both coaches thought it was a defensive liability having two forwards back there [at point]," Vukonich said...