Word: halcyon
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...adenoids are missing, but the tone is unmistakable ("Those halcyon days of yore are gone for good"). Through the booming names and assertions comes the clarion bleat of Howard Cosell blowing his own horn. In this $ autobiographical screed, the Mouth That Roared shows that in a 32-year career, no triumph was ever forgotten or insult overlooked. In the early 1980s, his Monday Night Football colleagues made the mistake of being "full of themselves, obviously convinced they could handle the telecasts as well without me." The broadcaster turned viewer chortled as the audience dwindled: "I barely made it through...
...halcyon year of 1973, the U.S. steel industry rolled out 151 million tons of raw steel, employed 509,000 workers and captured 87.6% of the domestic market. By the end of last year, the industry had shed 26 million tons of capacity and 296,000 jobs; its share of the domestic market had dropped...
Botson, the Times' assistant foreign editor, tries everything to pad his Who's Who biography into a $1495 hardcover offering. He searches for significance in offering. HE searches for significance in Gorbachev's halcyon State Law School, calling him ambitious, active, but not terribly well known. But the best evidence he can muster is the following from two unnamed classmates...
...amount of protectionism can turn back the clock to the halcyon days of the 1960s. "It's a global economy now, and everybody's in it," says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. "There is no way we can duck or avoid it." But if the Government fosters the right economic climate by cutting the federal deficit and reducing interest rates, U.S. industry has an excellent chance of meeting the challenge from overseas...
...halcyon Sixties had held the promise of getting what one wanted, whether it was drugs or free love or simply the freedom to be what one wanted to be. The seventies were dawning dark and troubled, for the Stones and for their fans. It would be necessary to come to grips with radically reduced expectations, to forget about casual wanting and get down to basic necessities. You'd better figure out what your real needs are and go out after them, the Stones seemed to be saying, and even that might not be so easy: "If you try sometimes...