Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neurotically generous. She is neurotically needy. We all know about people like Betty Blue: in movies, though not necessarily in life, they come to a bad end. Indeed, much of the suspense in this high-fevered melodrama revolves around whether that end will arrive sooner or later, and just how painful it will...
...protector, the honor can be claimed by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. When the Dow hit a trough of 776.92 in August 1982 and the economy seemed hopelessly trapped in a recession, Volcker and his colleagues at the Fed were convinced that interest rates had to come down. No sooner had they loosened monetary policy than investors came storming back into the market. And as interest rates kept falling, the bulls kept buying. By November 1983 the Dow had reached a high of 1287.20. For the next year, the index more or less stagnated, partly as a result of uncertainty...
Richard Helms, the former CIA director and Ambassador to Iran, who counseled seven Presidents over three decades, noted how, sooner or later, "they all felt like Gulliver, bound down by a thousand regulations and laws and the fear of leaks whenever they tried to do anything quickly and secretly to prevent trouble." Then pretty soon, says Helms, they began to lose heart in a thousand small ways that diminished their leadership...
Surveys by Pollster Richard Wirthlin show the President's popularity inching up again, giving Reagan some cause for holiday cheer. The polls seem to have persuaded the President's strategists that the further away their boss is kept from the controversy, the sooner it will die. Perhaps to that end, the President last week appointed David Abshire, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, to a new Cabinet-level post: coordinator of White House responses to the congressional investigations and other probes into the U.S. weapons sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...auspicious beginning for the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. No sooner had Jim Wright of Texas been voted into the top job in Congress last week than he called for a delay in reducing the top rate called for in the new tax-reform bill. Congressional Republicans and the Administration jumped all over him, and fellow Democrats recoiled in dismay, hearing echoes of Walter Mondale's disastrous appeal for a tax increase during the 1984 campaign. Though Wright's proposal would apply only to couples with taxable incomes exceeding $150,000, a tax hike of any kind seemed...