Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush did not take kindly to the charges. In a Rose Garden ceremony Friday, the President inserted into his prepared remarks a pointed rejoinder to his critics. "Anyone who allows political bickering to weaken our progress against pollution," said Bush, "does a tragic disservice to every city in America and to every American who wants and deserves clean...
...Bush Administration last week acknowledged the economy's weakened position when it predicted growth of only 2.7% for the year, down from the Reagan Administration's five-month-old projection of 3.5%. The White House forecasters, looking through the rose-colored glasses favored by most Administration economists, calculate a growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson...
...Yeah, just another victim. That's exactly what's going to happen to Pete Rose...
...seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon or watch the barometer and figure how to outmaneuver it." Because of such gifts, Hazelwood rose swiftly through the ranks. Only ten years after graduating, he became a captain, in charge of the Exxon Philadelphia, a California-to-Alaska oil tanker. At 32 he was the youngest skipper in Exxon's fleet...
...presumably unintentionally--conveys a message that Blacks are gifted with greater athletic ability and can be lazy about developing their talents, while whites, who are smarter, have to work harder to improve. It is the same distinction that is used when people compare Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, Pete Rose and Willie Mays...