Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most notably Fred C. Davison, the university's president. Davison did little to help his cause by stating that Georgia could not afford to "disarm unilaterally" by flunking stars while rivals kept theirs eligible. That argument was shot down by Propst: "It is neither an effective excuse nor a sound justification to argue that certain things are done because everyone else does them...
Even bleaker, Kennedy is embracing the media-heavy, image-building strategy and photogenicism that holds up Reagan's continuing popularity. Perhaps, we fear, his advisor just know better than to let their candidate sound off on issues when he has uncontroversial, un-thought-provoking idolatry to rely on. Unless he unveils new policy statements and starts talking about them, his election would only continue the disturbing trend of style over substance and the corresponding disinterestedness--and disenfranchisement--of the electorate...
...same speed as the proposed Orient Express. France's state-owned aircraft company, Aerospatiale, has more modest plans to build a second generation of the Concorde, the only supersonic commercial jet now in service. The so-called Son of Concorde would fly at 2.2 times the speed of sound, or about 9% faster than its predecessor. More important, the new Concorde would carry 200 passengers, double the capacity of the original...
...health insurance program, and Treasury Secretary James Baker was told to investigate the possibilities of an international monetary conference. Reagan announced that he was pushing ahead with plans for a suborbital airplane, which he dubbed a "new Orient Express," that could someday fly at 25 times the speed of sound. Though the craft is designed more for Star Wars defense purposes than for helping businessmen make it to Tokyo in time for lunch, it promoted an image of a President riding enthusiastically into the future...
...orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose effortless technique and voluptuous sound put her in the forefront of today's young instrumentalists, she lights up the Iberian peninsula with her dazzling technique. If anything, her performance of Sarasate's lusty Gypsy fantasy Zigeunerweisen is even more spectacular...