Word: robustness
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...always thought that you can't have a robust economy without a stable government," Bulger said, "But I recall him correcting me by telling me to consider Italy, a robust economy with an unstable government...
While a more robust recovery would put people back to work faster, the slow but steady tempo has a positive side of its own. Among other things, it gives investors the confidence to put their money in longer-term investments. On Wall Street outspoken bulls insist that the stock market still has plenty of room to grow. Elaine Garzarelli, an investment strategist for Lehman Bros., looks for the Dow to hit 4000 by the end of the year and climb to 4600 in 1994. "My feeling is that any correction would be minor," Garzarelli says. "Interest rates would have...
...degenerated into an all-purpose term of political abuse that means little more than "a view I disagree with." But it is meant to suggest a stifling orthodoxy, an intolerance of opposing views that verges on censorship, victimization chic and a stagy oversensitivity to robust remarks. All these elements have lately surfaced on the right, most noticeably in controversies over Clinton Administration nominees...
...Three's abrupt acceleration has caught Japanese carmakers off guard. "The Japanese never expected that Detroit would get better," contends Maryann Keller, an industry analyst with the firm Furman Selz in New York City. But with the yen now trading around a robust 105 to the U.S. dollar, Japan has been forced to price its cars out of the reach of many American shoppers. "At the yen level we are facing right now, it is difficult for some of our Japanese-made models to be competitive in the U.S.," a Toyota executive says. Some Western observers suspect they are witnessing...
...Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism toward authority and matter-of-fact agenda of including homosexuals in stories not "about" their world. All those are evident in A Perfect Ganesh, which is anything but an attempt to cash in on his sudden commercial appeal. There are flaws. While soundly constructed, with plenty of satisfying theatricality...