Word: robustly
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Radio Shack's Manager Brian Houle agreed. "I don't know what my competition's done wrong," he said, "but we're pretty robust here...
While the parade of speakers preached to the converted about the Soviet threat, support for the President's Strategic Defense Initiative and states' rights, the overall theme of the three-day meeting, "Looking Toward the 1990s," reflected the conservatives' robust confidence in the future of their movement. Speakers and delegates alike credited Reagan with having permanently changed the national agenda to make the conservative voice not just relevant but dominant. "The country is in an antiliberal mood," said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus. "Ronald Reagan has ridden this trend." The rightward tilt of young voters, who chose Reagan...
Newspapers, under the well-known New York Times vs. Sullivan Supreme Court decision, are allowed to be unfair, and in some circumstances even inaccurate, in order to ensure "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public debate. Yet oddly enough the unregulated printed press has become as tamely balanced in its coverage and comment as are radio and TV. For fairness has caught on with the public; this is what it wants from journalism. Only in two outposts of journalism is lively vituperation still to be found--on a newspaper's sports pages and in political journals of left and right...
...crew, dead serious now in the early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into the flight, Houston relayed a message of congratulations from the President, written in robust Rose Garden prose...
...embarrassments of the past summer have only compounded Canadian paranoia vis-a-vis her giant neighbor. Statistics disclosed in June showed that Canada's economy continues to suffer feebly beside the U.S's robust (though inauspicious) financial recovery...