Word: sounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to a loud and generously used horn, the favorite way for infantile motorists to sound off is with a noisy exhaust.... As one way of rating your own driving ability, check how quietly you drive. The fewer unnecessary noises you make, the sounder your driving...
Keeping Up with TV. In becoming more mature, Japan's press has not lost any momentum. On the contrary, it is in sounder shape than ever before. Though there are some 25 million television sets in Japan-more than in any other country except the U.S.-newspaper circulation has been growing, and no major newspapers have folded in the past decade. Five Tokyo-based national newspapers blanket the country: Asahi (circ. 5.1 million), Yomiuri (4.6 million), Mainichi (4,000,000), Sankei (1.9 million) and Nihon Keizai (930,000). Putting out 42 daily editions, Asahi has 2,000 editorial staffers...
Computers & Embezzlers. Mobutu has put the Congo on a sounder course partly by bringing into the government a group of bright young Congolese who are graduates of such schools as the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics. His government has installed computers to prepare the payroll, thus saving about $1,000,000 a year that would normally be lost to embezzlers. It has fired 40,000 relatives and friends of politicians from the bloated bureaucracy. And, at the urging of international monetary authorities, it has made some basic economic reforms, including a tight rein on credit and devaluation...
...good 10½lengths ahead of Dr. Fager, who beat him in the Gotham Stakes this April. And that was the least of the triumphs. In their first meeting at the Woodward, Damascus put a quick end to all speculation about whether he was a better-or at least sounder-horse than Ogden Phipps's four-year-old Buckpasser, winner of 25 of 31 starts and racing's third-greatest (at $1,462,014) money winner. By the quarter pole, Damascus had opened a five-length lead on Buckpasser; at the finish, the margin was an incredible...
...will itself be sustained only by sounder practice of democracy and will be able to speak to the world only when its practice matches its profession. I don't suppose that Ho Chi Minh understands that dissent does not mean disloyalty; one would hardly expect that of a Communist. But one might expect it of Americans. With the Administration doing its best to intimidate its critics, loyal dissent may be the only patriotic stance left...