Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be ironic for Americans to lose their faith in a free-market economy at the very time that the rest of the world, including even socialist countries, is looking forward to the forces of market incentives and entrepreneurship. In many respects the American economy is remarkably solid, with a respectable if not spectacular growth rate of around 3% projected for 1987 and an unemployment rate significantly lower than that in most other industrialized countries. But economic reality in America is complex and contradictory. Yesterday's boom regions, like the Southwest, are suffering while yesterday's depressed areas, like...
...estate also boasts one of the United States finest gardens, complete with 11 pools, nine fountains, blooming beds of flowers, a miniature Roman amphitheatre and shady arbor covered walks admist gurgling creeks and solid poplars...
Fortunately too, Danny Glover plays the Cosby role: Veteran Cop Roger Murtaugh, a solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...
...discharged; the detonators at 32 detonation points simultaneously fired; they ignited the outer lens shells of Composition B; the detonation waves separately bulged, encountered inclusions of Baratol, slowed, curved, turned inside out, merged to a common inward-driving sphere; the spherical detonation wave crossed into the second shell of solid fast Composition B and accelerated; hit the wall of dense uranium tamper and became a shock wave and squeezed, liquefying, moving through; hit the nickel plating of the plutonium core and squeezed, the small sphere shrinking, collapsing into itself, becoming an eyeball...
...President's trusted intimate, former Senator Paul Laxalt, now a lawyer with a stately office on Pennsylvania Avenue, proposed a solution: former Senator Howard Baker as chief of staff. Baker, with his unrivaled knowledge of power's rituals, joined Frank Carlucci, the newly installed National Security Adviser with a solid reputation of service to four Administrations. Others like them have followed; more will come. President Reagan now has a White House geared for more openness and conciliation, essential ingredients for progress in a presidency's waning years...