Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Public enemy number one today is the federal deficit," said the two-time presidential contender. "At no point [since the deficit problem began] has our government been willing to face and weigh the tough choices, to act resolutely to cut spending...
...enormous bust. In the wake of Black Monday, BP shares already on the market were trading well below the $5.68-a-share issue price of the new offering, and investors therefore shunned the new $12.2 billion flotation. Underwriters were stuck with millions of unsold shares, and could face losses totaling $1.7 billion. Earlier, British, U.S. and Canadian financial institutions had pleaded with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson to postpone the event. But Lawson chose to forge ahead, adding a concession: for the next month at least, shareholders who want to cut their losses will be able to sell...
...question each government must now face: Will there still be buyers...
...later magazine pieces about Southern stock-car racing, California auto customizers, Manhattan's Pop art world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...
When the Democrats held their first debate, in July, there were signs of opening-night nervousness: Albert Gore mangled the name of President James Polk, and Bruce Babbitt bobbed and weaved in his chair like a young Muhammad Ali. Last week it was the Republicans' turn to face William Buckley's Firing Line. From the moment the G.O.P. six-pack strode onto the Houston stage, all visual cues suggested that they were indeed different from their Democratic counterparts. They seemed reassuringly familiar, more experienced, older and collectively radiated -- to borrow one of Buckley's Latinisms -- gravitas...