Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard to The Crimson's lead story of April 4: Can anyone seriously deny that Kennedy School Dean Graham Allison's explanation of the Edwin Meese controversy is a superb example of the essence of decision? And would not the dean's bold and courageous stance in the face of widespread criticism be deserving of...a medal? Howard P. Segal Lecturer on the History of Science
...Treasury Secretary James Baker six months ago unveiled a bold plan to rescue Latin American debtor countries. Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Baker called for $29 billion in new loans to these beleaguered borrowers. He hoped that about $20 billion would come from commercial banks; the World Bank would provide most of the remaining $9 billion...
Republican leaders were delighted. "I think Ortega gave us a boost," chuckled Dole. During the debate that preceded the vote, Republicans pointed to the incursion to punctuate their concerns that the Sandinistas were bent on a bold expansionist course. "Blood is still flowing as we talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that...
...bold new ruling by the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs ought to make it easier for doctors to go along with a family's request to end treatment. After two years of deliberation, the seven-member panel affirmed that patients' wishes, as best as can be determined, should be respected and their "dignity" maintained. It is "not unethical," said the council, for doctors to discontinue all life support for patients who are in irreversible comas, "even if death is not imminent." In its most controversial provision, the council included food and water on the list...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...