Word: lear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lear's Hopes
Your story on the Lear Fan turboprop plane, "Saga in Epoxy" [Nov. 15], was well researched and accurate. However, Bob Burch's expectation that the Lear Fan will be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in the "summer of 1983" is based on unfounded optimism and lack of experience. If Burch's group is willing to put in an extra $200 million on top of the $90 million it has already invested, it might obtain certification...
...What, you have a Lear jet instead of a sleigh?" I tried to humor...
...Reagan realized early on that he could not avoid the economic issue. As Gloucester noted in Shakespeare's King Lear: "I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course." Reagan's stay-the-course theme emphasized his philosophy of reducing spending and the role of Government, and attempted to encourage voter patience with his economic prescriptions. Says Pollster Wirthlin: "Of those we surveyed, 58% said they believed the President's program would work eventually. It became a question of playing to the future...
Fritz Stern, professor of history at Columbia: "There is a certain absurdity and arbitrariness in making such Lists." Nonetheless: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the Bible, King Lear, Hobbes' Leviathan and Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents...