Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newly back from a vacation on the Crimean seashore, Mikhail Gorbachev looks well tanned, just a bit ruddy in the cheek. He conveys an image of robust | health and naturally controlled energy. He is solid but not fat. He laughs easily...
...Census data show that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is now wider than at any time since Census began collecting income-distribution data in 1947." Nor was Greenstein sanguine about the future. "It's a one-year drop," he said. "Unless we get an unusually robust economic growth, the poverty rate in 1985 is not going to show a significant decline." The Census Bureau warned against both economic Cassandras and Pollyannas, forecasting that the poverty rate would continue to drop, but at a slower rate...
Falwell felt no special urge for the church, although he used to lie in bed Sunday mornings captivated by the robust radio voice of a California evangelist, Charles E. Fuller. The night of Jan. 20, 1952, Falwell sat in the front pew of Park Avenue Church listening to a minister speak Charles Fuller's exact message: It was possible to have a personal relationship with God through Christ. Thrilled by the words, Falwell took the invitation to come forward to the altar and be born again. He bought a Bible the next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college...
...Commerce Department reported particularly good news. Its so-called flash estimate of the gross national product indicated that growth would reach an annual rate of 3.1% for the second quarter of 1985. While that remains well below 1984's gain of 6.8%, it is far more robust than the annual increase of 0.3% compiled in the first three months of this year. A major reason for the improvement: consumer spending, which rose 1% in April and another...
...long-dominant Social Democratic Party but gradually won critics over with his astute leadership and folksy style. He led his nation into a period of economic boom and toward achievement of full employment and cradle-to-grave welfare -- goals that his successors found more elusive in a less robust economy...