Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That change reflects a deep skepticism on Capitol Hill that the rebate plan will pep up demand enough to cut quickly into unemployment. On the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican, likens the passing out of $50 checks to everyone to "dropping money out of airplanes"; New York Democrat Otis Pike grumbles that there must be a better way to create jobs...
...Warren has done just that. A veteran of Broadway and such television series as Mission: Impossible, Warren is aiming for bigger fame in a "hot, sexy" song-and-dance act that opens this week in Los Angeles. Streisand has been bolstering Warren's courage with almost daily pep talks ("Get out on that stage, take a deep breath and do what you believe"), while Peters has been giving advice on such things as publicity and lighting. How come Leslie knows the good Samaritans? She was married to former hairdresser Jon until he took a shine to superstar Barbra...
...peculiar standards of bodybuilding, young Louis appears to be every bit as gorgeous as Arnold. What he cannot see, and what his old man will never accept, is that Arnold has a gift that cannot be acquired no matter how hard an athlete trains, no matter how many pep talks replete with references to Michelangelo's sculpture he absorbs. It is, of course, the gift of charisma, something capable of magically compelling his opponent's collapse and the judges' favorable votes...
...size and type of stimulus to be applied is that he cannot look at U.S. business in isolation. The economies of Europe and Japan are slowing down too, and their leaders are fearful of applying stimulus because of persistent inflation. World economists are looking to the Carter Administration to pep up the U.S. economy and persuade other countries, notably Japan and Germany, to pursue more expansionary policies...
...Hite Report stands as a polemic and a pep talk. See, she's telling all her readers, most women are absolutely normal when they fall short of the avidity that Playboy and Penthouse magazines try to fob off on them. Women can overcome their sexual dependencies--the last stronghold of a male-dominated society--only if they make demands, and both men and women will be better off when that happens...