Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curious habit. Because of a sometimes bad back, he was occasionally prompted to stand while addressing fellow members, then to stretch out flat on his back on the meeting-room floor while others spoke. Most important, of course, Greenspan was esteemed for his sound economic judgment. "The views he shared with us were reflected in the stories we wrote about the board meetings," says Executive Editor Edward L. Jamieson. "But we also shared in many behind-the- scenes exchanges that revealed his shrewdness and energy. We'll be watching carefully for signs of both...
...congressional interference, but Volcker's imposing presence (he is 6 ft. 7 in.) and his supremely assertive stance have over the years added more substance and clout to the Fed's famed independence. Indeed, in many foreign capitals, Volcker has been viewed as virtually the sole guarantee of sound American monetary policies, immune to political pressure. One commentator went so far last week as to describe him as a "financial demigod...
...quality of the video memoirs varies. Some have a home-movie amateurishness, with ill-lit camerawork, tinny musical interludes from the school band and interminable shots of students horsing around for the camera. Others strive for more professionalism, with rock songs on the sound track and TV news-style interviews. This year's video for Eastwood High School in Pemberville, Ohio, opens with an old woman rummaging through a trunk in her dusty attic. Inside she finds a forgotten videocassette, which she pops into a VCR. The tape, of course, turns out to be Eastwood High's 1986-87 video...
Born in Linares, a village in southern Spain, young Andres briefly studied the violin. But his teacher was a harsh martinet, and Segovia was unmoved by the sound of the instrument. "The violinists and cellists I heard in the Granada of that time seemed to extract catlike wails from the violin and asthmatic gasps from the cello," he wrote in Segovia, his 1976 memoir. "But even in the hands of common people, the guitar retained that beautiful plaintive and poetic sound...
...Thayer played a huge role in my happiness here freshman year. It started off with plain insults, then insults over loudspeakers, then snowball fights. The best thing we ever did to Thayer, though, was to go over there one Saturday night and steal all its toilet paper. It may sound silly now, but it was hysterical then. Besides, we needed the toilet paper...