Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard part is remembering, amid the incessant bending of elbows for vodka collins, gin and tonics, seven and sevens, and pitchers of imported beer, where it is that you are supposed to do all of this drinking, and a lesser amount of consuming solid fibers. You ask your Yale friends and they shrug their sioulders, and allow their faces to assume that certain empty look you only get while reading the questions on your Economics 10 mid-term. One Yale junior tells you cutely, "If you want sex, or drugs, or rock and roll, you've come to the wrong...
...budget director who rolled over Congress ran into solid brick at Wall Street. His political genius impotent against the law of the market. Stockman could only wonder how viable the supply-side theories he espoused could actually be. For the young intellectual had nurtured a coherent view of the way the world works--Greider describes it in his article as a sense of ideological purity--there could be no disjunction between politics and economics for David Stockman. The faith in the future and goodness of America, hard work and private enterprise was the same that inspired his confidence...
...long-awaited negotiations approach, both sides clearly have far to go before any solid arms control agreement can be reached. And in the interim, Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials will surely continue to try to discredit the U.S. and weaken NATO, by exploiting the growing fears in Europe of nuclear warfare...
Despite Ragtime (made at his doctor's suggestion and Forman's urging), Cagney, too, could stay home. He has never enjoyed self-promotion, preferring the quiet of his 800-acre farm near Amenia, N.Y. The comfortable stone house is as simple and solid as he is. He and his wife of 58 years, Billie, occasionally entertain friends like Mikhail Baryshnikov but venture forth only rarely. They journeyed to the White House when Ragtime was screened for the President, and this week at the New York Press Club, Cagney will memorialize his old friend Robert Montgomery, who died...
...shape than last season, with the two pairings returning. Junior Mark Fusco, brother of Scotty, and sophomore Ken Code are the top anchors on the blue line, and senior Alan Litchfield and junior Neil Sheehy compose the second duo. Says Cleary: "We're going in with a little more solid defense this year. We don't have to play freshmen, and on defense, you really have to rely on experience...