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Word: makeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...whether they can play tennis or golf again. In short, + they contemplate an existence drained of usefulness and joy. The spark goes out of their souls. It may help for these people to know that in addition to the miracles that modern medicine can perform, the heart can make its own bypass around the occluded arteries and that collateral circulation can provide a rich supply of oxygen. A heart attack need not be regarded as consignment to a mincing life-style. Under circumstances of good nutrition, a reasonable amount of exercise and a decrease in the wear and tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Nation of Hypochondriacs | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...fighters through mined fields, running like crazy, and was in the first wave that captured the enemy post. He and a friend came upon three soldiers scrambling down a hill. His friend shot one. Mohammad Anwar shot the other two, thumping the bodies with his rifle butt to make sure they were dead, then calmly removing a revolver from the first corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan When Allah Beckons | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Along the waterfront, where Christopher Columbus' statue points triumphantly out to sea, rusty railroad tracks were torn up to make way for two miles of sandy swimming beaches and palm-shaded cafes. About $2 billion worth of stadiums, hotels, restaurants and museums have been built or are under construction, a showcase for internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Arata Isozaki and Jose Rafael Moneo. "It's an orgy of creativity," says Mayor Pasqual Maragall, grandson of Catalonia's most famous poet. A former lecturer in urban planning at Johns Hopkins University, Maragall invited such American artists as Claes Oldenburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Most Dynamic City in Europe? | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...dinner meeting of America's board of directors, heavily from the midland where they grow things and make things. Now that the Gorbachev glow has faded and the glitz is gone, George Bush and his crew have the tougher job of helping the Soviet Union gear up for the open world and the marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Capitalists over Corn Bread | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Other charges soon surfaced: Durenberger accepted (and failed to report) free limousine transportation during personal travel, converted a $5,000 campaign contribution to his own use, charged the Senate for several stays in a Minneapolis condominium he owned, and used Senate office-building space to make speeches for pay. Next week, barring a negotiated face-saving arrangement, the Senator will begin a two-week public ordeal -- a politically lethal hearing by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which has found "substantial credible evidence" that Durenberger broke the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of David Durenberger | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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