Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration can be faulted for not heeding the warning signals that this year's budget deficit might balloon beyond expectations, and that its defense spending plans might prove too lavish. But the rush to judgment before the first tax or budget cut even takes place is a curious reaction, particularly from those in the business and investment community who have such large stakes in a Reagan revolution that works. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Douglas Brew with Reagan
Helms spent the next seven years in a happy humdrum, working as executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association. The job paid well, and it also introduced him to the state's corporate Establishment, which found Helms a right-thinking young apprentice. (A curious pattern: small-town boyhood, radio sports reporter, business p.r. man. Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms...
...recent afternoon he was at home slouched in a living-room chair, feet in $7 mail-order sneakers flat on the floor. His dog Patches, essentially a beagle, quivered under the couch. Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious perch in American politics. "Some folks say I'm scary," he says. "The people here don't think I'm scary." Two of his four grandchildren, capering in the yard, call him "Sir," but they are not scared. He does not want to be scary...
...when the uptight are continually exhorted to let it all hang out and be in touch with their feelings, it is curious that no one calls anyone else a Byzantine logothete any more. That is what Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson; and, while a Byzantine logothete is not the worst thing you can say about someone-it means a glorified accountant-it does suggest a certain largesse of contempt that is missing from modern life. A government official is fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column...
...instance gambling chips were put up as collateral for a large loan.) The fund also made curious multimillion-dollar loans to developers with close ties to mobsters and to Central States' own trustees...