Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Rubin talks a line that would cheer his generation's fathers. Confides he: "Money is power. Information is power. One of the reasons that the rich become richer and the poor poorer in America is that the wealthy can afford the financial information supplied by lawyers and accountants...
Well, he looked at me like I was the crazy one and told me if I didn't like his hollering, I should move. I was just about to tell him where he could go, when a loud cheer went up from the stands. Down on the field, where they play the game, one of the Bears' netmen had just caught a line drive, to put the game into sudden death overkill...
...result, virtually every segment of society, every philosophical faction and special-interest group, had something to cheer about, and perhaps to jeer about as well. Antiabortion campaigners were rewarded with a politically touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials...
...Carter!" they chanted "Carter! Carter! Carter!" For a moment at least, the President last week heard Americans cheer themselves hoarse, a heady sensation he had not enjoyed in many months. Knowing all too well how desperately he needed a lift, Jimmy Carter had chosen his audience well: the convention in Los Angeles of the National Education Association. The organization has been enthusiastically behind him ever since he supported higher aid to education and fought successfully for the establishment of a separate Department of Education...
...major news services ("TASS is rather late sometimes, so I have to rely more on Western agencies," Dunayev says), while the other assistant lines up film, still photographs and other visual material. Dunayev begins by outlining his lead stories, keeping "one or two lively items in reserve, just to cheer people up after telling them what new actions the White House is going to take...