Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...service is explicitly patterned after similarly repetitive all-news radio stations. SNC's ABC footage is limited to stories that do not feature network correspondents; the network thus provides only 15% to 20% of the total film and tape. Even so, foreign coverage has been generally solid. But for its first six weeks, SNC had on board only ten of the 24 regional TV stations that are supposed to supply U.S. news. That reporting system will not be complete until late December...
Weekly, the values of middle-class America were tested on the show's half-hour and proved sound. Like My Three Sons and The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver is based on a reassuring assumption: the family, solid and resilient, is the ultimate sanctuary from the world...
...individual identities. Some of this devices are brilliant--a series of "candid" snapshots of the four ladies, for example, accompany the lords standard ravings before the female delegation first appears. Likewise, a long home-movie of one clownish master-and-page pair (Brian McCue and Jessica Marshall) offers a solid basis for the two's relationship before their first exchange, and the relationship provides one of the few emotional landmarks in a wilderness of obscure Renaissance jokes. In other cases Lachow resorts to more familiar conceits of costume and mannerism: one oaf appears with a crew cut, a white-robed...
Banks and bankers have long been considered the bedrock of American business. The sober executives dressed in dark blue and talked in hushed tones, as befitted their serious calling. Their judgment was considered Solomonic, and their financial institutions were believed to be as solid as the vaults in which their cash was stored...
...long as the U.S. economy remains sluggish and many companies continue to teeter on the brink of bankruptcy, some banks will be wobbly, even though American banking is basically solid. Says Arthur Soter, a bank analyst for New York's Morgan Stanley: "By the time this recession is over, the cases of sheer stupidity may be far less than in the mid-1970s, but overall losses could turn out to be worse." Like the hard-pressed companies and countries to which they have made heavy loans, U.S. banks now have to face up to serious past mistakes and pressing...