Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scare word-psychologically laden with history and anguish-rather than a sensible description of what could happen in a modern U.S. economy. No one talks of a 50% drop in national production, or a 25% jobless rate-the experiences of the 1930s that gave the word depression its menacing ring. Indeed, if the current downturn ever approached such severity, the great majority of economists are confident that the Government could forestall a repeat. Says Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research: "If we really found ourselves falling off a cliff, there is very little disagreement about...
...boxing contender whose ability to endure massive pain wore down opponents more than his flailing punches; of a stroke; in Queens, N.Y. With 17 wins, four losses and one draw on his record, Jackson, a strong favorite of TV fight fans in the '50s, was forced from the ring in 1958 when the New York State athletic commission said he had suffered brain damage. Friends claimed Jackson had been exploited financially during his ring career, and he spent many of the remaining years of his life shining shoes and driving...
...Mitchell's only efforts to resolve these enigmas of social responsibility are the graphic, tepid biographies of his heroes. With seven vivid examples of "mavericks who would not be silenced," the author whimpers through his point by implicit example. Unfortunately, the examples Mitchell chooses are banal and consequently they ring hollow. For example...
...current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the early 60s, wrote for example that "the things we are asking for in our civil rights process have a deceptively quaint ring. We are asking for the due process of law ... We are asking that regulation ought to be considered as arrived at legitimately only from the consensus of the governed. These phrases are all pretty old, but they are not being taken seriously in American today. "In a 1965 speech SDS president...
...avuncular Walter Cronkite, took to wearing a sleeveless, V-necked pullover on his newscasts some three months ago. Perhaps not so coincidentally, he has since reclaimed Cronkite's traditional top spot ahead of NBC and ABC. Says Rather: "God knows what would happen if you put a ring in your nose." Without going that far, Rather is prepared to stay bundled up through the summer. "If it takes wearing a sweater when it's 112 degrees," he vows, "we'll turn up the air conditioning...