Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration officials were divided about the political impact of the news from Geneva on the alliance. According to the Pentagon, West European support for Reagan's zero option was still "rock solid," and a senior State Department official traveling with Shultz noted that "not a single European pressed for altering the zero option." That may be literally true, but other policymakers feared that if the White House rejected the Moscow offer out of hand, it might add to West European suspicions that the Reagan Administration was not serious about arms control. To hold the alliance together, they argued...
...left of income after accounting for taxes and inflation, is actually rising at an annual rate of 2% to 3% these days, vs. a decline of 1% in 1980. That is nowhere near 1973's 8% gain, the highest in the past decade, but it is a solid improvement...
DIED. Freeman Gosden, 83, the Virginia-born white who played the straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings...
...cynicism scores even when it sails in from outside one of Miller's shots, as it sometimes peculiarly does. The coach is played hard by Robert Mitchum, whose wise and cynical presence just does not suit a man living on nostalgia and dead ideas. The rest of the solid cast includes Bruce Bern, Stacy Keach and Paul Sorvino, who have their moments. But these never add up to persuasive performances...
...NOTEBOOK: Coach Delaney Smith cited Springfield's Donna Losardo as a solid guard who might have been a little nervous in front of her old Westwood coach...Val Jordan is now sporting crutches, and the Crimson hopes she'll be back for the Dartmouth rematch after Christmas break...