Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...borrowing spree. "The coming of age of the baby boomers," says Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers, "is altering the relationship between consumer credit and income, reflecting this group's greater acceptance of credit." Terry Blaney, president of Houston's Consumer Credit Counseling Service, is blunt: "We have a whole generation of people who have been raised with high expectations. Couple that with all the advertising we see, and you've got a lot of materialistic people. There has to be an adjustment in attitude about credit...
...story of Leonard Stern sounds like something out of Capitalist Times. Son of the founder of Hartz Mountain Industries, Stern, 47, is the chairman of the world's largest purveyor of pet products. Intense and blunt-spoken, he may be worth as much as $1 billion, but only his accountant knows for sure: Stern's company is privately owned and he rarely talks to reporters. Now he will have trouble avoiding them. Last week Stern bought the Village Voice, the crusading, leftish weekly whose brand of political and cultural journalism shaped a generation of underground newspapers...
Caspar Weinberger's opinion was blunt and harsh. Asked how the four suspects in the Walker spy scandal should be punished if found guilty, the Defense Secretary replied, "They should be shot," adding that he supposed "hanging is the preferred method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a bill to make spying for money punishable by death, was even more draconian. "If there is an execution, it should be public and on television," he said. "I want the widest possible visibility of this kind of crime (to) deter people who may be starting down this road...
...What these programs do best is live exchanges with two or three people on different sides of an emotional issue. Good Morning America, for example, recently paired Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel and Conservative Columnist John Lofton; when Lofton criticized Wiesel for not speaking out against other atrocities, Wiesel's blunt rebuttal ("How dare you, really") made for affecting television...
...distinctly remember how after the interview Lenny turned and, politician style out of the corner of his mouth directed a rather blunt question my way "So whaddya think of the way I run the City Council meeting...