Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lamely tried to split the difference. His speeches were a study in contradiction, combining hints of bold spending programs with cries for a balanced budget. If Franklin Roosevelt's approach was inconsistent, even intellectually dishonest, it helped produce a landslide victory over Herbert Hoover and ultimately the New Deal...
Anxiety was especially high in Detroit, where automakers feared the crash could deal a new blow to car sales, which are already slumping. Maryann Keller, a prominent auto analyst with Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, a Manhattan-based investment firm, predicted that U.S. sales of cars and trucks would fall about 15% next year, to 9.5 million vehicles. One reason for her gloomy forecast, she said, was that the loss of wealth caused by the stock- market decline would have a "significant effect on consumer confidence and the ability to spend...
...think that the younger players watch to see how we deal with situations--especially where this was a first--year adjustment for Tim and for us. You can't do things just because you feel like it--you feel responsible making sure that everything goes right," Pinezich continues...
...been scheduled. But Shultz had not yet completed his talks; when a reporter raised the subject, Reagan could merely state, "We don't have a word yet or a date yet." Then he went on to muse about how he would like the Soviet leader "to see a great deal of America." They might end up, he said, at his ranch near Santa Barbara. "I've thought it would be kind of nice to invite him up to our 1,500-ft. adobe shack that was built in 1872 and let him see how a capitalist spends his holidays...
...Stella wrings more pictorial feeling from abstract art than anyone else alive. His big paintings, when they come off, are almost unique in their confidence: they project a sense of grandeur rather than the usual American inflation of scale. They are also marked by their will to confront, to deal their aesthetic cards face up, as plainly as possible...