Word: touche
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More and more Congressmen maintain that their freedom from party directives makes them better legislators. Says Maine Republican William Cohen: "Today's Congressman keeps in closer touch with his constituents, and that helps generate a more responsive system." Even so, Americans still hold the Congress in low esteem. According to a Harris poll in November, only 15% of the voters expressed much confidence in Congress, a slight increase from the 9% of a year earlier but far below the high...
Half a dozen years ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Andrew Biemiller could guess correctly how some 300 Congressmen would vote on labor legislation; thus he and his assistants had to sound out and try to persuade only the remainder?about 135 Representatives. Today he has to touch base with at least 300 unpredictable Congressmen and never can be sure which way many of them will jump. Last year he was confident that the House would pass the common situs picketing bill, which would have allowed a single union to shut down an entire construction site, but it lost by twelve votes...
...talent, however, is no accident. Her ability to reach an audience, and touch the very core of so many people, is a result of hard work and professional dedication. But most of all, she has heart -that indefinable something that separates the ordinary from the extraordinary...
...married. Attend church. Join the Elks or even a Jacuzzi club. Whatever, so long as you keep in touch. Such behavior may be the best prescription for long and healthy life, according to research by Epidemiologist Lisa Berkman of the University of California at Berkeley. Studying the lives of 7,000 people between the ages of 30 and 69 over a nine-year period, she found that extraverts are more likely to live longer than introverts, who tend to be overweight, smoke, shun exercise and drink too much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman...
...spiritual sanction. So the swami of sex began tailoring his program to the psychospiritual circuit, catering to graduates of the "human potential" movement who felt that the movement's potential-and their own-had reached a dead end. Refugee experts from encounter groups, Rolfing massage and other please-touch techniques began making the pilgrimage and offering Rajneesh their talents. Since 1974, when the lushly gardened Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ashram opened in the sedate city of Poona, more than 50,000 seekers have gone, mostly from the U.S., Britain and West Germany. Among recent visitors: Actor Terence Stamp, Singer Diana...