Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Thomas K. Jones, who had suggested, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last January, that the U.S. could survive a nuclear war if enough people dug homemade shelters. The Senators wanted to use Jones' testimony to publicize the Administration's casual attitude toward limited nuclear war and its unwarranted faith in civil defense, but they had to threaten a subpoena before a reluctant Pentagon would allow him to appear. Jones was subdued and careful. In a barely audible voice, he said he had not meant to "imply that nuclear...
...This casual approach has lured many varsity athletes from other teams, most notably Catherine Ferrante. who made the All-Ivy lacrosse team last spring. And junior Kathy Davis, an All-American high school swimmer, joined the ruggers after putting in two seasons at Blodgett Pool...
Although fashion is ephemeral, style is more influential, and surely more lasting. Style has to do with assumptions, even more than attitudes, and much of what Armani has contributed to contemporary design assumes, then conveys, a common, casual sensory enjoyment of clothing. Not as a statement, not as a sign language or a power trip or a status squelch or any of the other miscellany from the pop-shrink handbook; just as a simple and sustaining pleasure all unto itself...
...also a labor force with half again as many white-collar workers as blue, an economic fact of life that has helped to cushion the deepening industry-wide slump in steel orders. In Houston (". . . the only place on earth where I have heard 'trillion' used in casual conversation ...") he learned that there are more branches of foreign banks than in any other U.S. city except New York. In Fresno, Calif., he found a county as agriculturally productive as many entire countries ("... 5,500 tons of figs, 40,000 tons of black olives, 175,000 tons of peaches...
...senses these days that the Leverett House Arts Society knows its business. The hallmarks of a growing professionalism are evident from the start: Ushers are casual, handling the doorway crush smoothly, and the programs with their predictably flippant bios and nostalgic senior testimonials evince a comfortable style. The solid walls of the Old Library--one of the few legitimate full-size theaters available to House dramatists--reflect the assurance needed to knit two such diverse shows together and make them work. Small wonder, perhaps, that what happens on stage this weekend echoes such firmness...