Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, it is clear that the economy, as well as businesses by the tens of thousands, would suffer jolts aplenty if protracted and real chaos wrecked the smooth functioning of commercial aviation throughout the U.S. Says Robert Joedicke, an airlines industry expert with New York City's Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment-banking firm: "Air transport is the nation's only basic means of transportation beyond 500 miles. Without air transport, you absolutely hamstring the economy." Just how much it is hamstrung will depend on the duration of the turmoil in the skies...
After a week of efforts by the controllers to stop America's air-transport system, the industry continues to function with a smooth reliability that has surprised almost everyone...
Reagan's belief in what he is doing is real, and that faith spread to his people, says Counsellor Edwin Meese. Now, says Staff Director David Gergen, that belief has been forged into pride, as the Administration has succeeded with its initiatives. The process has not been smooth or faultless by a long shot. The Communist threat to El Salvador was overstated. The idea of cutting back Social Security benefits was premature and ill-considered. The immigration program consumed five Cabinet meetings with debate and bickering. But even skeptical aides see that Reagan never turned away from his demands...
...that plays Sunday nights in the cramped front yard of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, lugs around more equipment than many bar bands, but its members claim they have no aspirations other than "to play outside in the warm weather and entertain the people." Several contributors to the smooth Ammonia sound are professional musicians, and one notes that the group has potential "because we've already fought it out and slugged each other around, so we know how to survive." For now though, they're willing to run their cords all over Brattle St. and play vigorous two-hour...
...They used to apply the term "bigger than life" to the movies, and scenes such as this have that quality, though "different from life" is perhaps more apt a term. It simply feels like a movie. Not that it's over produced, but things are just a little too smooth, the timing is a little too perfect for it to be anything but a cinematic fanatasy. If you fall into one of these situations on your way home from the movies, your first reaction would be: "It's like being in a movie...