Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President and his advisers complain with some justice that the market's lack of confidence in his economic policies is unfair, since the goal is a gradual, long-term reversal of past trends, they also fear that the doubts could prove self-fulfilling. To help remove those doubts, Reagan made a key and, for him, painful decision while on vacation: his pledge to balance the budget by 1984 will take precedence even over his plans to spend $1.5 trillion on defense over the next five years. Thus Reagan ordered an extremely reluctant Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...author of The Empire Strikes Back and wrote the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark), Kasdan has succeeded handsomely. There is intricacy in the movements of his prowling camera, in the pairing of shots and situations from different parts of the film, in the gradual muting of the film's colors from flaming orange to blacks and whites as the lovers' passion turns to calculation. There is density in the plot construction, a maze that Ned must negotiate to save his life; Body Heat has more narrative drive, character congestion and sense of place than any original...
Nevertheless, the level of assistance should not be cut. The promise of Social Security benefits should be like money in the bank. The appropriate solution to the problem is a gradual slowing of the growth of grants for current and future retirees...
...Star's plight was similar to that of other big-city evening papers, which lost about 20% of their circulation between 1965 and 1979. The flight of city dwellers to the suburbs and the gradual postwar shift from a blue-collar to a white-collar work force have created an audience predisposed to morning papers. Today's reader goes to work later and has less time for reading a newspaper at the end of the day. Although television coverage offers less depth, it can provide much fresher news: many evening papers go to press before midday so that...
...widen her eyes to be transformed from a bustling peas ant into a feeble dotard, nodding off after lunch. Glenda Jackson has specialized in self-absorbed eccentrics, but, as Stevie, she makes the familiar lilts and snappings sound new. Through the subtlest shadings of this fiercely independent soul, Jackson gradually recedes from the viewer's awareness, and the gentle Stevie takes over. The film's movement toward American release has been even more gradual; it was made in 1978. Now Stevie is here, not drowning but sailing with two splendid characters and performers...