Word: bedrocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signaling a rebound ahead, but few signs of it can be found in the industrial heartland. Despite the break in interest rates, company profits for the third quarter were down by about 21% on average from the same period a year ago. Many recession-battered firms in such bedrock industries as mining, steel and autos suffered stunning losses. Aluminum Co. of America ran a $14 million deficit, Bethlehem Steel Corp. lost $209 million, and Ford Motor Co. $325 million...
Banks and bankers have long been considered the bedrock of American business. The sober executives dressed in dark blue and talked in hushed tones, as befitted their serious calling. Their judgment was considered Solomonic, and their financial institutions were believed to be as solid as the vaults in which their cash was stored...
...time Eakins was reproached for being too scientific, not artistic enough, though "a builder on the bedrock of sincerity, and an all-sacrificing seeker after the truth." Their freedom from "poetic" conventions is, of course, just what makes his best paintings so moving to a modern eye. In them, system and nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail...
...they must, to relieve Soviet uncertainties on this point. Henry Kissinger, out of office, felt free to say in Brussels in 1979 that "it is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." But a senior German general says the bedrock of NATO is still that "the risk to the aggressor must be incalculable," by which he means both immense and uncertain. That may be a better place to leave...
...bedrock of the Galbraithian economic vision is common sense: when something is wrong, make it right. Do not try to pretend that it is right. It has been about 73 years since Galbraith was born on his father's Ontario farm, but its marks on him can never be erased by time. His garb is now strictly Ivy League Professorial, yet, in repose, his thumbs seem naturally to stray to his lapels, in the classic farming pose. The wrists, dangling from his famed and still awesome longitude, still seem unnaturally powerful for one who has made a living with...