Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock-full-of-facts. I'm sure you can do it without studying if you try. We did. Best Wishes, A Grader
...aggressive leftist regime in Nicaragua. Polls showed that few voters shared his critical concern over Central America and even fewer wanted the U.S. to become involved in the problem. Yet because he fervently believes his policies are vital to the future of the hemisphere, Ronald Reagan made a bold but politically risky appearance last week before a special joint session of Congress. "A number of times in the past years, members of Congress and the President have come together in meetings like this to resolve a crisis," he said. "I have asked for this meeting in the hope that...
...science fiction, but last week Swedes were taking very seriously indeed a report by their government charging the Soviet Union with a spectacular underwater spy effort off the Swedish coast. After a six-month investigation, an official commission concluded that up to six submarines had been involved in a bold intrusion into the waters near Sweden's Musk Island naval base last October. The fleet was said to include three advanced miniature submarines, some equipped with tanklike treads for crawling along the sea floor. One of the minisubs, the report disclosed, may have crept 50 miles to the north...
...some graphology experts, the penmanship in sample diary pages that were made available seems to lack the bold sweep of Hitler's hand and to understate some of his characteristic quirks, like curling the end of each line down and to the right (see box). Said Charles Hamilton, a noted New York City autograph dealer and author of a forthcoming book called Autographs of the Third Reich: "The genuine writing is full of power and force. In the diary samples that I saw, all the letters shake, as though they were drawn, not written...
Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale calls it "one of the most important works of the decade." Says Senator Gary Hart, another Democratic hopeful: "Few books on economics are bold enough to capture one's imagination. This is one." The object of the praise is The Next American Frontier (Times Books; $16.60), a provocative new analysis of America's economic ills by Robert Reich, 36, professor of business and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Searching for alternatives to laissez-faire Reaganomics, the activist Democrats have found an intellectual mentor in Reich, who argues that Government...