Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house is on fire, it's not the time todetermine who's the arsonist," Jackson said. "Thatis the time to get the inhabitants to a safe placeand to get the extinguisher. The president needsto give a sense of collective leadership, and thatdid not happen...
...Dukakis; he projected a confidence rarely seen in the weeks since his campaign was rocked by disclosure of its role in leaking a tape that helped sabotage the candidacy of Joseph Biden. Dukakis' public words were a careful mixture of reassurance and assault, as he reserved his fire for safe targets like the Reagan deficit. "We cannot operate as a country by continuing to borrow billions and billions of dollars," he declared in Hartford...
...Wall Street response was to turn to Madison Avenue. Sober television commercials popped up between World Series innings to reassure investors that their money was safe, and full-page ads appeared in major newspapers. Declared Prudential-Bache in large black type: "Now, especially now, you need an investment firm that is rock solid." That, of course, is exactly what Prudential claimed to be. Shearson Lehman implored readers to "talk with us" because "we share the concerns of every serious investor." Admonished Merrill Lynch: "The worst thing to do right now would be to sell at distressed prices...
...salvage operation, the Titanic itself and some of the recovered treasures. Among the objects brought up by French divers: a bronze teapot and coffeepot, a leather valise, a rococo vase, a statue of a cherub from the Titanic's first-class grand staircase and a ship's safe, which may contain a fortune in jewelry...
...only possible threat from Iran is terrorism. It's safe to assume, however, that even now Iran is exploring all the terrorist possibilities. And our current wimpiness is likely only to encourage their schemes...