Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...futility of well-intentioned initiatives in a conflict poisoned by four decades of hatred and mistrust. In 1983 the death, of 241 U.S. servicemen in their bombed-out Beirut headquarters showed him the dangers of direct intervention. Returning from the region last October, Shultz seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole mess...
...discovered this attitude one day in the Botanical Gardens laundry room. While I was silently adding Clorox to my wash, a blue-haired elderly woman suddenly turned from putting her wash in the dryer and clicked over to me in her orthopedic shoes. Holding a ball of lint in her hands, like a damning piece of evidence, she began her verbal onslaught...
...tirade continued for another minute while I patiently took it all in. Better not stop her, I thought, she might get the landlord to rent my room to John Kenneth Galbraith. When I changed my wash soon after, I threw every bit of lint in the trash--you never know what teenage social ill she would attribute lint to. If I lived in a house, any house, I wouldn't have to defend beer parties and loud music to an octogenarian...
...spoiling any child has touched many other hearts. Supportive letters have poured into his office. A professor's wife from Erie, Pa., tells Clark his philosophy and style are just right; a mother of two from Queens, N.Y., approves of his tough line; and a senior citizen from Olympia, Wash., writes simply, "I wish we had a few more like you." Many of the letters contain money -- in amounts from $2 to $100 -- for Clark's defense fund. This past week brought some big bucks. Jack Berdy, chairman and CEO of On-Line Software, a computer company in Fort...
...doubts that pacemakers can save lives. But as many as 30,000 may be buried with the deceased each year in the U.S. To avoid such waste, Implant Technologies Inc. of Bothell, Wash., wants funeral directors to recover the devices so the firm can then sterilize and export them to the Third World for $600 to $800 apiece. "In the more than 6,000 cases of pacemaker reuse around the world, there has never been a single reported incident of malfunction attributable to reuse," declares I.T.I. President John Elsholz. If a pacemaker works, he reasons, why abandon it? The company...