Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it was a Texas puddle jumper, Southwest and its fun-loving chairman were dismissed as an oddity. But now that the Dallas-based airline has made money for 20 straight years and spread to 34 cities in 15 states, the industry is paying it sober respect. Concedes Gerard Arpey, senior vice president of American Airlines: "Unless we can find a way to lower our own costs, they're going to drive us out of many markets." Southwest has been wreaking turmoil in California, where intrastate fares averaged $200 before it shook up the market in 1991 with $59 tickets...
...math," Clinton's team quickly produced Putting People First (or PPF, as it is called), a 232-page paperback chock-full of numbers, all of which Clinton swore "added up." At its bottom line, the proposal promised to halve the nation's deficit by 1996, an assessment many considered sober and even courageous because it backed off Clinton's earlier intention to wipe out the red ink entirely by the end of his first term. But even this modified deficit- reduction promise owed little to Clinton's programs. Almost all of the decrease was due to what Clinton's economists...
...biggest cases is over. The Fall River, Massachusetts, diocese reached an out-of-court settlement with 68 persons who said they were abused in the 1960s by Father James Porter and accused the diocese of ignoring his misdeeds. The accusers, who agreed not to disclose the financial terms, were sober in victory. Cash "is not a medicine. It won't make any one of us healthy," said Peter Calderone. Porter, now married, out of the priesthood and living in Minnesota, faces sex charges there and in Massachusetts. Last month the sluggish U.S. Catholic bishops made their first joint response after...
...election would mean to a generation whose first political act was both protesting -- and serving in -- an unpopular war. "If I win," he said softly, "it will finally close the book on Vietnam." Whether marching in the streets or marching in uniform, Vietnam introduced baby boomers to the sober realities of power. Another generation chose Vietnam as a battleground, but in very personal terms Clinton and his peers had to face the consequences of that decision. Now a child of postwar prosperity has ascended to the presidency. How both Bill Clinton and his generation adjust to their newfound power will...
...viewers, in fact, Bush seemed to adopt an almost elegiac tone, as if he knew he had lost and had decided to bow out with dignity -- though that may have been primarily a consequence of a format that brought the candidates in front of a quizzical audience demanding a sober discussion of issues...