Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week that its profits fell 27% in the three months ending in October, but said that sales picked up in the first days after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the all important Christmas shopping season. Several other retail chains, including Dayton-Hudson and K mart, are also reporting brisk holiday business. Concludes Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The odds still favor a very good Christmas." He thinks the drop in interest rates will bolster consumer confidence...
ASEAN. Among the countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations, the standout is Singapore, which is expected to end the year with an 8.6% growth rate. Exports of garments and electrical machinery have been brisk, and the government has stimulated the construction industry through heavy spending on public housing and Singapore's new rapid transit system. Economist Narongchai forecast that growth will remain in the 8% range through...
...this reasonably typical confusion in the contemporary lifestyle, Judith Martin, 46, the inventor and sole proprietor of the magnificently omniscient syndicated persona called Miss Manners, offers a brisk answer: "The ideal social relationship, since you ask, would be one big happy family, all gathered together at Thanksgiving to enjoy this interesting and varied network of relationships." But since that is highly unlikely, Miss Manners urges that "tolerance and kindness should be summoned, at least to those who are nonvoluntary participants in the relationship, the legal wife and all the children...
...concluded his speech, a 1,200-member P.L.A. band struck up the first of several marches. The parade's leading unit, a 153-man, three-service honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
Only a few months ago, there was growing concern that the economy might overheat and generate sharply higher interest rates and inflation. Brisk loan demand and the Federal Reserve's tight policy pushed the prime rate that banks charge business borrowers from 11 % early in the year to 13% by summer. That increase in interest rates now seems to be helping slow the economy to a more moderate rate of expansion...