Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generously to a number of charities. Last year, for example, she laid out $750,000 to fund ten scholarships at Tennessee State University in Nashville, her alma mater, then followed up with letters to each recipient, challenging a couple of them to get better grades. "My mission is to use this position, power and money to create opportunities for other people," she says...
...impressive. Diet, the report states, helped account for more than two-thirds of the 2.1 million deaths in the U.S. last year. Poor nutritional habits are strongly implicated in five of the nation's top ten killers: coronary heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, diabetes and some cancers. Excessive alcohol use is linked to three other leading causes of death: cirrhosis of the liver, accidents and suicide...
...Surgeon General wants Americans to minimize the use of salt in cooking and at the table, and to limit alcohol intake to no more than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
Meanwhile, Iraqi forces completed a series of thrusts deep into Iranian territory and pulled back to their side of the border. By Baghdad's admission, the attacks were mounted to capture enemy soldiers for use as bargaining chips in an eventual prisoner swap with Iran. Iraq claimed the raids netted 12,000 new captives, bringing its prisoner-of-war total to 35,000, still well short of the 50,000 Iraqis held in Iran...
...tied his offer to a long-held Iranian goal: getting possession of assets, including $400 million worth of armaments, impounded by Washington when relations were severed in 1980. "Let them ((U.S. officials)) take a nonhostile pose by releasing our assets," said Rafsanjani. "If so, we will use our influence in Lebanon." Reagan Administration officials quickly ruled out the possibility of any deal that had the appearance of an Iran-contra- style ransom. Reagan nonetheless chose to view the comment optimistically, saying, "If they're willing and ready to talk, it's time...