Word: support
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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They kept to a vegetarian diet that contained less than 10% fat and banned all oils. At twice-weekly meetings, a psychologist held group support sessions. Everyone was taught stress-management techniques, including yoga, and was told to spend an hour a day meditating, visualizing arteries unclogging, and doing relaxation and breathing drills. Smoking was prohibited and moderate exercise recommended...
...came very gently toward us and asked if he could really believe the rumors," Dagfinn Stenseth recalled. "I told him if he was thinking of the Nobel Peace Prize, he could." A smiling Gorbachev later said that he was "deeply moved and excited" and that the honor would provide "support and inspiration" at a critical time in his reform efforts...
...long ago, Jackson went to Harvard to lecture, and he asked his audience if the university was educating people "to go home, not necessarily where they came from, but to some place where they can dig in and support meaningful things, not just upward mobility." Jackson got no firm answer, nor did he expect one. He carries the question with him wherever he travels to make people think again about what they may have lost and what they really treasure. He seeks a new generation that can find and grasp the "great and priceless privilege" that Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps...
...issues in Japan are as controversial, or as emotional, as those affecting the military. The country's "peace constitution" specifically renounces not only warfare but also the "use of force as a means of settling international disputes." Opinion polls show that there is enduring support for this constitutional proscription. Thus any attempt to tamper with so broad a consensus was bound to cause trouble...
Kaifu was forced into the imbroglio by the crisis in the Persian Gulf. After 1 1/2 months of indecisive debate, the government belatedly offered $4 billion in cash to support the frontline states and the multinational forces arrayed against Iraq. Yet many Japanese realized that simply handing out money was an insufficient gesture at a time when other nations were sending soldiers to risk their lives in the Saudi desert. In a newspaper interview, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, showing his occasional affinity for tasteless similes, declared, "If we were to try to settle everything with money, we would...