"In the past decade, the United States has entered a new era of hope for its developmentally disabled citizens", Reagan intoned, "This new age of enlightened understanding recognizes that developmentally disabled persons have a great potential for achieving and overcoming handicaps.
During the planning, Mr. Ebersol also acceded to a move pushed by members of his staff to cut way back on the now much-mocked athlete profiles, usually known as "up close and personals," during which heart-tugging tales of overcoming handicaps and tragedy are often recounted.
Since 1922, 1,300 people have gotten to the top, but only a few of those have overcome handicaps to do it.
Like Mr Khatami in his heyday, the reformist challengers have also inspired large, organised youthful followings that have fought hard to overcome handicaps, for instance by using text messaging and the internet to bypass the state media.Tipped as most likely to succeed is Mr Mousavi.
Results suggest that processes of aging and development helped the early-onset ill to overcome handicaps through emphasis on generativity and the late-onset ill to regain involvement in life.
The male Irish elk's enormous antlers could perhaps have evolved as displays of ability to overcome handicap, though biologists point out that if the handicap is inherited, its genes ought to be selected against.
He earned respect by scrupulously observing the responsibilities and limitations of a constitutional monarch and by overcoming the handicap of a severe stammer.
Overcoming the handicap of a late-scheduled start in both rounds of the men's slalom, he won a bronze medal, finishing a split second behind another American, Billy Kidd, the silver medalist.
He had done heroically well, working his way up at the Board Mill, overcoming the handicap of his beginnings (his mother hadn't been "able to look after him").
With atrocious timing, extracts from a forthcoming biography appeared last week in which Mr Blunkett spoke with lethal (for him) candour about other ministers.The comments, which were recorded a year ago, drained sympathy for Mr Blunkett's predicament and admiration for his achievement in overcoming his handicap.
This was due partly to the creative inside-forward's courage in overcoming the handicap of a blood-flow problem that reduced his pace and prompted a surgeon to inform him, when he was 20, that he had the legs of a 70-year-old.
