Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...landslide defeat and the concession speech did not sober Tierney's supporters...
...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...
...labs, humans' decorations are interspersed with bags of monkey chow, manuscripts of journal articles, and cases of rubber gloves. One receptionist's cubicle seems to be a normal office, except for the battling stenches of disinfectant and monkey dung. And down the hall, a researcher's door bears the sober proverb, "Mortui Vivos Docent...
...break down and the workers who make them should be sent to Detroit "because we could use that kind of ability." But that pales beside the glandular and verbal flare-ups among the Democrats. Bush's 21 years of solid public service in six big jobs stand like granite, sober but more enduring than a weekend on the Monkey Business or a speech imported from British Pol Neil Kinnock. We always choose a President by comparing him with somebody else...
...mildly amusing slapstick scenes in which she tries to feed the baby spaghetti and meat sauce and to change the baby's diaper. Eventually, though, J.C.'s maternal instincts begin to emerge when she decides not to give Elizabeth up for adoption--not a difficult decision, considering the frighteningly sober Minnesota hicks who want to adopt her. As J.C. tells Stephen (Harold Ramis), her yuppie love, she can't give up Elizabeth to a future of "frosted lipstick and Dairy Queen uniforms...