Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Someone pressed the down button on the Elis' elevator...
...nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment that compulsive attention to detail in the Oval Office simply got in the way of big ideas...
While failing to excite customers, home banking has been a costly proposition for the banks. One problem: although many large creditors like utilities have computerized accounts that allow their bills to be settled electronically, most small businesses do not. So when a home-banking user hits a button to pay, say, a doctor's bill, someone at the bank often has to print out a check, stuff it in an envelope and put it in the mail...
...senior adviser to the President and must at least ponder a decision to go nuclear. Could you push the button...
...Diary. The ad promises that its "50 all-time classic" cartoons will "start each day with a smile." But such an enforced daily dose of risibility struck me as being a little like wearing a lampshade at a party while completely sober. Esquire is another competitor in this smile-button sweepstakes. Its diary boasts cartoons and ads drawn from the magazine's issues of 1939. Not, however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next Sept. 1. Others might be attracted by the international status that...