Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world; world's biggest audience. These Hollywood people are very good at what they do; they know more about emotional strings than most talented shrinks-and Saturday they pulled them all. Not that it was easy. Not that an ocean of perspiration hadn't been shed in the weeks leading up to that explosive curtain raiser...
...Jackson vowed not to be a spoiler in the coming campaign. "There is a time to compete and a time to cooperate," he said. Then, in muted tones, he summed up his conduct as a candidate: "If in my high moments, I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope ... or in any way ... helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain." Next he made a confession: "If in my low moments, in word, deed or attitude, through some error of temper, taste or tone, I have caused anyone discomfort...
...BEDTIME FOR RONZO. But one cause whose signs usually dot Democratic gatherings seemed conspicuously absent: labor. Union backing was critical to Walter Mondale's success. But except for a march near the hall before the convention opened, labor leaders lay low in an effort to help Mondale shed his damaging image as a captive bearer of the union label. Said Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association: "We did not want to give the appearance of domination...
...House members are female, and they are regarded warily by the Capitol's male denizens. Women in Congress must not whine, they must not pout and they most certainly must never cry. They must overcome all the stereotypes that many Congressmen, like some other males, have not yet shed about the opposite and allegedly weaker...
...high-tech products as robots, are booming. Next year, growth may drop slightly to 2.6% if the U.S. economy slows as expected. Inflation will crackle along at about a 10% rate this year and next. Unemployment, now running at 9.5%, will near 10% in 1985, as industry continues to shed workers aggressively...