Word: offhanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mecham, a former auto dealer who was elected in 1986 on his fifth try in a three-way race with 40 percent of the vote, had offended Blacks, Jews, women and others with offhand remarks and official actions...
...excellence in dramatic criticism by the chairmen of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale universities, is one of the most distinguished awards in the field of theatrical writing, said Stephen B. Boies, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, which administers the prize. "I don't know, offhand, of any other award like this," said Boies...
...says Lloyd Webber. His basic shyness and his air of indifference to most other subjects make him seem brusque and aloof. "Andrew is a very determined person, and he's very competitive," says his mother. "He has a one-track mind. He has a brisk manner and can be offhand. He has his difficult side -- he has a temper and terrific swings of mood...
Interest in Mikhail Gorbachev's long goodbye speech to the American press last month was starting to flag when the General Secretary made an offhand remark that brought heads up with a snap. The technology exists, he said, that would permit the superpowers to spot nuclear weapons on each other's ships and submarines without having to climb on board. According to Gorbachev, this technique would "identify not only the presence but also the capacity of the nuclear warheads aboard such vessels." Come again? Have the Soviets managed to develop a spy satellite that can peer through the hull...
...some respects, the U.S. did. President Reagan gave verbal, albeit offhand, support for the dollar, helping halt the currency's plunge, which has alarmed governments from Japan to West Germany during recent weeks. Even more upbeat was the announcement that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's global competitive woes, improved by a gratifying degree during September. But at week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily...