Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...means that the policies we were pursuing, which we put openly and frankly before the people, were thought to be right for Britain. They were policies which were a partnership between government and people -- namely, we do the things which only governments can do, running the finances in a sound way, keeping inflation down, cutting controls and giving tax incentives. And we got the response in an increasing enterprise and competitiveness from the British people. And that produced a higher standard of living...
...world. He was also a tireless teacher whose students included Julian Bream. This, in fact, may prove to be his most enduring legacy; once scorned by academia, classical-guitar study is now offered by some 1,600 schools of music in the U.S. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Composer Igor Stravinsky once observed, "but it sounds...
DIED. Sammy Kaye, 77, folksy bandleader and host of popular music shows on radio (Sunday Serenade Room) and television (The Sammy Kaye Show), known for his soothing, reedy "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye" dance sound and for gimmicky contests that gave audience volunteers a chance to lead his band, and whose first major musical success, a version of the title song from the movie Rosalie, in 1937, was followed by such hits as The White Cliffs of Dover, Daddy, Remember Pearl Harbor and Harbor Lights; of cancer; in Ridgewood...
...from Japan, where she played host to a PBS documentary on the country, to Argentina and Spain, where she filmed El Tunel (The Tunnel) with Spanish Director Antonio Drove. "I played a woman obsessed with love," reports Seymour. Hmmm. Would "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" sound more macho in Castilian...
...Force One is ready for retirement. Economic summits in Venice are old hat -- Jimmy Carter was there for one seven years ago. The dollar is tired and limp, and Paul Volcker about to become a memory. Congress is slower, windier and crankier. Even the 17-year locusts sound unhappy to have emerged again along Washington's troubled streets...