Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quiet defiance. Like father, like daughter. Self-possessed, imperturbable, smoothly articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back of a white limousine cruising along Route 20 toward Chicago. Arredondo reached for Wattleton's note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic...
...victims of their success. Fancying themselves managers as well as marauders, they built huge but shaky empires that rested on debt. Result: their vast borrowings at sky-high interest rates left companies ranging from TWA to Allied department stores awash in red ink. "Many of the raiders' problems are self-inflicted," says Stuart Bruchey, a professor of economic history at the Columbia University Business School. "They jump into businesses that they don't understand, and expect to jump out with a quick profit. But they end up getting badly bogged down...
...biggest chill has come over raiders who once promised to run companies more efficiently than did the bosses they ousted. Largely self-made men who flaunted their contempt for corporate America, many raiders have had a rude comeuppance. Some have suffered much greater setbacks than others, but few are flying as high as they did in their heydays. Among the consequences of their deals...
Even before the referendum, the army began a campaign of self- rehabilitation. It announced that some reforms were being considered, including, at last, alternative service for conscientious objectors and an end to reserve service at 42. After the voting, General Heinz Hasler, who will take command of the military on Jan. 1, averred that the army had much to do: "Everything must be done to restore the people's conviction that military defense is needed" -- a clear acknowledgment that even the leadership of a citizens' army cannot long ignore great changes in the citizenry...
...Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that she has no personality, no family, and that no one who loves her can make decisions about her." But other experts believe that advocates of self-determination often skip over a basic question in incompetent-patient cases. Asks University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "Whose rights are being fought for, Nancy Cruzan's or her parents? Whose preferences are being advanced...