Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elegant assurance of Allen's transitions in time and the perfection of an ensemble cast (special mention to Gene Hackman as the rejected lover) are admirable. They enrich the hypnotic power with which a complex movie explores that inevitable mid-life moment when we must count the costs not of our incautions, but of our cautions...
...investment instead of speculation, Government regulators should sharply limit the amount of junk bonds and other risky investments held by institutions insured by federal and state agencies. In addition, the federal deposit insurance system should be revamped to ensure that it encourages prudent management at financial institutions. At the moment, regulators bail out mismanaged S and Ls and often turn them over to new owners who commit little or no capital of their own and who get a free ride to continue the institutions' speculative activity at no risk to themselves...
...Maoist China. Such were the favored metaphors among staffers of the New York Times under the iron grip of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal. With a hair-trigger temper and skin as thin as a sheet of newsprint, Rosenthal was known to be convivial one moment, then, at the slightest miscue, fly into a rage. Those who unquestioningly did his bidding thrived; many of those who crossed him made their careers outside the hallowed offices at Times Square...
Lyndon Johnson in Dallas acted first to thwart a possible plot against the traveling party, comforted Jacqueline Kennedy, took the oath and roared back to Washington. There was nothing brilliant about these acts of common sense clearly defined by the demands of the moment...
...There is no overwhelmingly compelling reason at this moment to endorse mandatory widespread population screening," she said, "because the answer to the question, `What is the purpose of the test, and what would you do with the results?' is unclear. There is no treatment. There is no way to ensure that people will change their behavior and not spread the disease...