Word: regimen
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...married for the third time in January, to Model Barbara Minty, 26, had for months denied rumors of the ailment. Last week he confirmed that doctors had told him in April he was suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer usually regarded as incurable. Since then, he added, a regimen of treatment, including oil baths, vitamins and "positive thinking," had "extraordinarily" improved his condition. Said McQueen: "The reason I denied that I had cancer was to save my family and friends from personal hurt and to retain my sense of dignity as, for sure, I thought I was going...
Many of today's programs are also designed to provide the rehabilitation that, in theory, is the purpose of the prison regimen. Convicts who may be accustomed to unemployment can learn to get up and go to work in the morning; some acquire skills that they can use after release to get steady jobs. All twelve of the ex-cons who worked for the computer company at Stillwater have parlayed their skills into similar jobs on the outside. In hopes of achieving comparable results, Massachusetts has closed down its flag-sewing operation in favor of a microfilm shop. Some...
...hard enough. But then came the crisis in Iran, and the President had to depend on his Vice President for much of the hard slogging of the primary campaigning. Now back in the good graces of Carter's inner circle, Mondale is looking forward eagerly to a strenuous regimen of four-day-a-week campaign swings, making slashing attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close...
Given such problems in communication, the visitors kept very much to the Intourist regimen when they first arrived -traveling to and from the Games or the city sights in the big-windowed Ikarus buses from Hungary that have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night...
Players usually spend the weeks before Wimbledon fine-tuning their games. Borg spent the weeks before the 1976 tournament overhauling the most difficult shot in the game. Two hours a day for 14 days, he did nothing but serve. That regimen so strained the muscles in his chest and abdomen that he played in pain throughout the tournament. But it worked. ; "The new serve was why I won Wimbledon the first time," says Borg. "The people in the crowd had been used to seeing me serve for years, and suddenly, here I was, serving so different. They could not believe...