Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire family. That the male gnome remains potent until about 350 years of age or that the buxom females, unencumbered by gravity, go braless may be of greater interest to parents than to the very young. The rest of this oversize book, with its bounteous legends, its wealth of robust humor and lavish illuminations, deserves a resounding G rating as ageless entertainment...
...begun to consider whether to keep Burns. That is January's decision, they say, not November's. But postponement of a decision on Burns, just like the delay on the tax package, unsettles the business community and adds to the forces that are lessening chances for a robust economy in the second year of the Carter Administration...
...Italian, is the main character of The Immigrants, Howard Fast's latest novel, which traces the history from 1889 to the present of a Jewish family, an Italian family and a Chinese family, all late-nineteenth century immigrants to America and to San Francisco. The book is raw and robust, like the expanding country it describes. Fast's prose is clean; his sentences are short; the pages are dense with human drama. His characters are carefully developed, realistic because they are unconscious of their roles in history. The Immigrants draws the reader into its drama, leads him to read without...
...almost all the private pension plans that mushroomed after World War II. Yet in Bismarck's time, only a small percentage of the population lived to 65; life expectancy at birth was about 37 years. Today's advances in health and medicine have produced a virtual army of robust, over-65 unemployed. Future medical breakthroughs will swell these ranks even more...
...touch of hypochondria has entered the outlook too. After robust growth during the first half of the year, the economy has paused during the summer. The leading indicators that are supposed to foretell the future course of business have been down slightly for the past three months in a row. In August, industrial production declined for the first time since January, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.1%; joblessness among blacks equaled its post-World War II high. All that has stirred talk of lasting slowdown in the economy-or even a new recession...