Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kingdom. The presidency carries with it a moral responsibility that ought to humble even the most self-confident leader. Yet how do the candidates spend these final weeks, as they seek to shoulder this awesome responsibility? By reverting to a childlike state of dependency, with their every movement, gesture, word and response dictated by political handlers and chaperones. At the very moment the voters are asked to place their future in the hands of one of these men, the campaign staffs of Bush and Dukakis are trying to prevent their candidates from uttering a spontaneous thought in public...
Ironically, the most conservative President since Herbert Hoover has found his veto power no more effective than a thumb in the dike in stanching a flood of progressive (the "L" word is no longer used in capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long...
...called "Princess" by the swim-team staff because of her occasionally imperious ways. She developed a crick in her neck at training camp in Hawaii, doubtless, it was said, because of a pea under her mattress. In Seoul, she complained, the team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny muscles," which are too small, he was sure, to store painful quantities of fatigue-producing lactic acid. "Look at this," said the 6-ft. 7-in. Biondi...
...shadows every discussion at the current Olympics, and not just because Korean President Roh Tae Woo has dubbed this the "Era of the Ordinary Man." All the divisions - have grown increasingly blurred, moreover, as governments offer medal winners homes and lifetime incomes. Even the terms are slippery now: the word amateur has actually been excised from the official Olympic lexicon, while professionalism remains a dirty word among those who want flawless efficiency in their plans but not their hearts...
Ofek-1 (the word means "horizon") is an experimental satellite designed to collect data on space conditions and the earth's magnetic field. But there was little doubt, either in Israel or among its Arab neighbors, that future satellites launched by the Jewish state will be used for gathering military intelligence...