Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before leaving, she told friends that her main apprehension about the voyage was the expense involved--the travel agency spent from $70,000 to $80,000 on each participant. Murden said that she felt guilty that so much money was being spent on her expedition, while so many homeless people still need help, Bovian said...
...transformation in the lives of my contemporaries was far more subtle. Reagan's desire (apart from that of some his crazier compatriots) was foremost to rid the country of its malaise, and to dispel what he felt was a national gloom. He mentioned this proudly only last week in his farewell address. In some sense, he has surely succeeded in restoring hope and confidence, for the economic recovery of the last several years would never have succeeded without the faith of investors...
...done. The ((Carter)) Administration had got deeply concerned. They said to me they were scared of this exploding inflation and were willing to stand still for stronger measures than would ordinarily be the case. And that is a great advantage. If you can walk into a situation that is felt to be so severely out of kilter, you have greater freedom of action...
...resulting 50-room, $10 million confection takes up all of the 68th and most of the 66th and 67th floors of the tower. The building actually has only 58 floors, but Trump felt that wasn't sufficiently impressive, so he skipped some floor numbers to give his tenants a psychic boost. "He would have loved to build another ten floors," says architect Scutt, "but he couldn't because of zoning rules, so he changed the numbers...
...Vanities, which deals with a lot of rich New Yorkers who pursue such vanities as charity dinners at Trumpian apartments. Trump reports that he also recently read Gorbachev's Perestroika. "It was not the most exciting book I ever read, and I didn't particularly enjoy it, but I felt I had an obligation to read it," he recalls. He does not believe, though, that he needs many such exercises to get on in the world. "I can sit down with the most sophisticated people in the arts in New York and get along fabulously with them," he says...