Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups being loosely identified with Prometheus and Narcissus), he wants their actions to be motivated more by reality than by infantile fantasy. Lasch evidently fears right actions performed for the wrong reasons more than he fears wrong actions or their consequences. Psychologically, one supposes, this is typical and perhaps sound. However, from a practical, political, on ethical point of view, it seems impertinent...
...Basically, we want people who are sound in mind and body," Orzack added...
...Gorbachev's visit will be followed by one from Gromyko early in 1985. Said Thatcher: "We shall hope during these visits to take forward the search for ways to reduce the burden of armaments." Acting in concert with Washington, the British may use their time with Gorbachev to sound out the opening Soviet position in Geneva and to hint at "Washington's. "The Russians know perfectly well that anything they say to us will go straight back to Washington," said a British diplomat in London. "We will be acting as a two-way conduit...
...week to step out of public life. "I am absolutely not being coy about it," she said. "I have an intention and that is my intention." Well, perhaps. But only a couple of hours later the U.N. Ambassador ordered a wire-service reporter dressed down for making her decision sound irrevocable in his story, and indeed she did not specifically rule out taking another post in the Reagan Administration. Many Washington insiders concluded that Kirkpatrick was engaged in calculated job jockeying. Said an Administration official: "It's her way of getting Reagan's attention...
...rose sharply during the four years following the 1929 stock-market crash, when a total of 9,000 banks closed. With the entire financial system in shambles, President Franklin Roosevelt in March 1933 closed all the nation's banks for four days to quell the panic. Institutions declared sound by federal and state officials were reopened, and Congress began writing new banking laws. The resulting Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee the safety of savers' money and banned banks from conducting the lucrative but risky business of underwriting securities...