Word: echoeing
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...that, Wall Streeters are beginning to echo a certain heady confidence that the sorry 1970s had seemed to drain away almost entirely. Says Wall Street's Lurie: "I think people in this business have forgotten just how much fun a bull market really is. To me, all those rationalizations not to invest are pointless. We've come through ten years of bad times, this is an election year, the start of the 1980s, a big era, and it's going to be a big market...
...they are, this is the place to start. "We haven't been playing up to our capabilities," adds Parker, and Flaman and Harvard coach Billy Clearly could echo his words. This time it's B.C. they're out to get, but the Terriers, with tradition and the crowd behind them, are still on everyone's mind. Dynasties are rare in sports, and there's a certain thrill in B.C., Harvard and Northeastern are all vying...
...last president that was great was Roosevelt," she adds. She explains that Roosevelt brought the country out of the Depression and won the war. No single man can make that kind of difference anymore, she tells me. Pauline's fellow townspeople echo the sentiment again and again. The apathy in Farmington stems not from the belief that a single vote would not change things, but that the winner could not make a difference...
...movies, these effects are constantly shown through funny photography, strange sound effects and bizarre syntax--they are easy to recognize, easy to label "insane," and hence easy to ignore and dismiss. One wonders why it is that schizophrenics are so often shown on split screens, or with funny echo-chambered voices whispering on the soundtrack. And what does this have to do with the genuine condition, which is abnormal precisely because it is not occurring in the realm of special effects...
Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger hears an echo from the 18th century, when armies used to maneuver around each other. The one emerging in an inferior position often surrendered quickly so that it could live to fight again. "We march television cameras instead of troops," he says. Warfare that used to seek land, wealth or subjugation now is aimed at the mood in Washington or Qum or Moscow or Riyadh...