Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There have been occasions in the past whensomeone does statistical analysis, and someoneelse comes along and takes a different approach,"Jordan said...
Healy called the plan "a modest approach" to changing the cost for smaller water users...
...optimistic view that as long as there is no upheaval in the streets, the Kremlin will not call the republic to account. Says a Tallinn intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms of the standards of international justice. That is an approach that Moscow officials will find difficult to oppose." After all, Gorbachev has often called for a Soviet state governed by law. He can hardly fault the Estonians for putting that principle to the test...
...missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire: "The pastures are stony, the mountains are leonine, the natives are taciturn and venal, the sunsets...
That repeat version of Reagan's 1981 rosy scenario came under fire from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who told the National Economic Commission on Wednesday that the supply-side approach was "fanciful" and implied that Bush's "flexible freeze" plan for reducing the budget would not work. "If we do not act promptly," said Greenspan, "the imbalances in the economy are such that the effects of the deficit will be increasingly felt and with some immediacy...