Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acker seemed to be getting the results he wanted with his bold inaugural scheme, as Pan Am's reservations lines were jammed with bargain-hunting travelers. Said he: "The phones are literally ringing off the wall." In the four days after the cuts were announced, reservations rose from 21,729 to 36,622, a 59% jump. "We had to do something dramatic," said Acker. "We wanted to make the world aware of us again...
...modishly austere and alienating. Because of this last contradiction- because The Mystery of Oberwald does not "work" on the accepted narrative level-the film may be scorned or, worse, dismissed. That would do this tireless innovator an injustice. Antonioni will be 70 next year, but he has suggested a bold new direction for the cinema-and created a work of dazzling ambition and achievement. -By Richard Corliss
...Reagan ordered his Cabinet to find new ways of cutting as much as $15 billion out of next year's budget and a stunning $74 billion in 1983 and 1984. And with those demands, the President opened Chapter 2 in the history of Reaganomics, the Administration's bold plan to alter fundamentally the policy directions of the past half-century and to put the U.S. back on a course of steady, noninflationary growth after years of stagnation and inflation...
...stooped and effortlessly uprooted a knee-high plant, turned around and asked my companions if they knew what it was. They paid little attention until I told them it was marijuana. The four boys huddled and asked me if I was sure, and how I knew. Then, one was bold enough to ask if I had ever tried it, evidently eager to hear whether I had been tainted by the contamination that was American culture...
...from a bold move, however, the PATCO dismissal signifies a cowardly attempt to intimidate unions and coerce them into unwitting collusion with Reagan's questionable economic policies. By heading off labor unrest at the pass, the Republicans hope to divert attention from measures which will harm most Americans...