Word: calmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that if the Social Security system can somehow stay afloat through the '80s, it will sail into calmer waters for a long period beginning around 1990. For one thing, a 1% tax increase-half a point each on workers and employers-goes into effect that year. For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years. Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying...
Outwardly, at least, Poland was calmer than at any time since martial law was imposed. Poles from the countryside told a TIME correspondent that their villages had never really been touched by martial law. But most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. Every evening at 10:45 the streets and highways were suddenly transformed into speedways as thousands of Poles rushed toward home to beat the 11 p.m. curfew. A considerable number-5,500 according to the government, and as many as ten times that...
...Sidney Petersen. "We are not going to get out of it in the next 20 months." Adds James Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Wall Streeters remind me of a mother on her daughter's wedding night. They just need to be a lot calmer, and we'll get through this...
NATO-in-Crisis (the calmer variant: NATO-in-Disarray) has for long years been a staple of journalism and think-tank colloquia. The crisis story was always halfway true, because of the fundamental divergences and imbalances within the alliance, but now the story is also serious, because the desire to overcome the divergences has been significantly weakened...
...help themselves-teen-age girls, for example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts, and dropped his father's name. The President advised...