Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their message directly to President Bok. That activism is testimony to the deeply felt convictions of a substantial portion of the campus community that Harvard's current investment policy toward South Africa is incorrect and counterproductive. Far from disappearing with the graduation of a few individuals, this pro-divestiture sentiment has persisted for more than a decade and appears to be growing. Whether or not Bok is prepared to reverse his stated opposition to divestiture, it is imperative that, as the leader of this University, he acknowledge the dimensions of campus opposition to his policies...
...Captain Larry Scott echoed this sentiment saying. "It we can compete that well on a national level, we're ready for the Ivy season...
...Screenwriter Barish or Director Seidelman was raised in Roberta's world, escaped to Susan's funk scene in lower Manhattan, and lived not just to tell both tales but to process them coolly and ironically. There is not a desperate frame in Desperately Seeking Susan--no anger, no false sentiment, no patronizing. Like the screwball comedies of yore, it places entirely probable people in a highly improbable situation and requires that they consult their own sorely tested inner logic to find...
...safety of its deposits. "This problem with S and Ls is getting real widespread," said Accountant Bruce Humpherys, a thrift depositor in Pittsburg, Calif. "I'm wondering what's happening to our whole financial structure." The concern showed up dramatically in Pollster Albert Sindlinger's weekly survey of consumer sentiment. The percentage of people voicing confidence in the economy fell in one week from 50.4% to 42%, the steepest drop in the poll's 30-year history. "I wouldn't say consumers are panicked," said Sindlinger, "but they are shocked. They expect many more banking problems...
Such harshness has startled the Japanese and clearly left them shaken. Said one Tokyo banker: "There's a hurricane of anti-Japanese sentiment blowing that's reminiscent of the days when William Randolph Hearst played up the yellow peril." The Japanese insist that they are doing more than ever to encourage American firms to do business in their country. Last week the Japan External Trade Organization was host to a four-day fair for products of 250 small and medium-size U.S. exhibitors. Among them: Montana Log Homes of Kalispell, Mont., and AmLab International, a New Jersey maker of pharmaceuticals...