Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to have faith in the masses of people who use language every day and to respect the special expertise that they possess as speakers of English. Corey Miller...
...department simply reaffirmed its faith in Watson," said Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome H. Buckley. "Having reviewed objections that some people from outside--the ad hoc committee and so forth--had to the appointment, the department decided to reaffirm its endorsement," he said...
...Only two people in the world, maybe three, believe in SDI" said Hoffman, who is also the Director for the Center for European studies. He said only the president, the secretary of defense, and Shakespearean actor and physicist Edward Teller had faith in the 'Star Wars' program. "Not even the scientists working on it believe it will work...
Every time someone says "Where's it at?" it is as if a counterfeit dollar enters the nation's money supply. Gradually, people lose faith in the currency until it is as worthless as the German mark in the '30s. When it takes a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread, the monetary system is no longer useful as a standard for trade. When "don't" follows "he" and "doesn't" follows "I," language is no longer a useful standard for communication...
Reagan puts great faith in his ability to persuade people through the force of his personality; that is one reason why he accepted the Iceland invitation and why he felt confident about getting into a major bargaining session once there. So, rather than aggressively pursuing a more limited agreement, Reagan and his advisers found themselves scrambling after Gorbachev's vision. The U.S. negotiators pursued a strategy that was in some ways a mirror of the Soviet one: putting together enough tantalizing agreements so that when the decisive moment finally arrived, the other side would be willing to back down...