Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spain's other major conservative stronghold, the business community, was cool. José María Cuevas, secretary-general of the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, said that while businessmen "do not agree with some of the Socialist plans," they sought "a sincere dialogue with the new government, because this is a fundamental of an employers' organization." Some businessmen expressed grave reservations at the prospect of a Socialist regime. Warned José Antonio Segurado, vice president of the employers' confederation: "You will see, after they try to spend too much to produce jobs they cannot deliver...
...cello and hi) or, more likely, slips off into oblivion, dead as Oscan and Manx. The evening news should probably broadcast brief obituaries of slang words that have passed on. The practice would prevent people from embarrassing themselves by saying things like swell or super. "Groovy, descendant of cool and hip, vanished from the language today...
...obstacle Ho encounters is the attitudes many of the teens have about schoolwork. "It's not considered cool to try and do well in school," he says. The negative peer pressure. Ho adds, can partly be blamed on the prevalence of street gangs in Chinatown New York Chinatown gangs send people to Boston every once in a while to organize" he says. "The environment's not too good for studying...
After that, De Lorean began losing his credibility, if not his cool. In an effort to get his plant back from the hands of British receivers, he appears to have invented investors he said were poised for the rescue. Sir Kenneth Cork, one of the two British receivers, said last week, "They were always shadowy people whose names we never learnt. There would be a telex saying businessmen would put up so much, but always on the condition they were not named. They never emerged into daylight...
...none too enthusiastic about Sino-American relations. Zhao's attack elicited a sharply worded response from Washington protesting "unfriendly" statements and "simplistic sloganeering." Secretary of State George Shultz is having second thoughts about going through with a tentatively scheduled visit to China later this year, and Reagan is cool on the idea of making a trip of his own next year...