Word: repeatly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civilization, as a structure built and enhanced not only by those who honor history but by those who know when and how to take chances. There may be another side to Santayana's excessively quoted aphorism, that those who only remember the past are also condemned to repeat it. To live exclusively with the past is to become the past, to launch pre-emptive strikes, as one's enemies did, out of fear and hate and nothing reasonable...
...Baker phoned him at his ranch in California with news of the latest Federal Reserve cut in the discount rate. In two fund-raising speeches in Los Angeles, Reagan ran through a litany of hopeful signs about interest rates, inflation, savings and personal income that he no doubt will repeat endlessly on behalf of the candidates for whom he campaigns...
...only 55 attended the swap, Lovig declared himself "unhappily happy" about the event. Said he: "I'm unhappy there's not a larger crowd, but I'm happy because when was the last time so many people like this gathered in one office?" Lovig, who might repeat the event next year, had another reason to be satisfied. In the first 20 minutes of the swapping, he traded his Learjet for a casino in Las Vegas...
Wall Street's gloomiest forecasters argue that sky-high borrowing costs are literally ruining the business environment for American industry. Says Raymond Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, a Wilton, Conn., economic forecasting firm: "I think we'll see a repeat of the Crash of 1929. The only way we can avoid a further acceleration of failures is to get a substantial break in interest rates accompanied by a sharp increase in economic activity. That has not happened, and that is why I believe we are already in the early stages of a depression." Dalio expects the Dow to drop...
...million to Resorts' drop in May, and when Engelbert Humperdinck appeared there over the Fourth of July weekend, the casino set all-time records. Says Norton: "We've basically eliminated most of the performers who don't cover their own costs." No casino is likely to repeat the mistake of the Aladdin Hotel, which put Donnie and Marie Osmond into its Baghdad Room last summer. "Their crowds drank Cokes and left," says one Vegas marketing analyst...