Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the question-and-answer session at the end of the forum, one audience member asked if panelists thought disillusionment among the Russian people will handicap them now that they are finally living in a democracy...
...links. The university arranged for her to go to golf school for a week. "I had never had a golf club in my hand," says Shalala, now Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services--and one of the few Cabinet officers with a low enough handicap to play with President Bill Clinton. "Today a lot of people I schmooze with, I schmooze with on a golf course...
...erosion of self-esteem. Partly it was their physical awkwardness: Michael and Kip were small for their age; Mitchell and Luke were pudgy. Furth describes Mitchell as "a sensitive, soft 13-year-old"; in Arkansas, where little boys are taught to be flinty and stoic, softness is a handicap. Luke and Michael were teased about their physical appearance (both were called "gay," the latter in the school paper...
...Blake played heroically in his return tothe Harvard lineup, pairing with Clark for thefirst time since October. However, Blake's injurywas too much of a handicap, and the pair fell 8-6to Hisham Hemeda and Sherif Zaher...
...nearly 20 years, or possibly even more if we continue on to graduate school (as test-takers hope to do), we will have been judged by our words and by our numbers. But more than anything else, we have been judged by other people, and that is the tremendous handicap school has given us. After spending a quarter of our lives waiting for other people to evaluate us, we risk losing the ability to evaluate ourselves...