Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend. By raising an uproar about the Russians in Cuba, Church will improve his standing in Idaho. Said one Church backer in Boise last week: "Frank has changed from a dove to a superhawk and that's already helping him out here. His frontier instincts of survival are still sound; he knows how to draw a bead on a target...
...more information on a particular area is needed, aircraft can be called upon to supplement the satellite. The needle-sleek Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...
During the 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter singled out the end-of-year spending orgy as one that he, as a sound manager, would stop. So much for good intentions. During the past fiscal year, monthly spending commitments by Government ranged between $39.5 billion and $51.2 billion a month until September, when it leaped to $86.8 billion. For example, Government spending (leaving aside the military) to acquire land and buildings jumped from $307 million in August 1978 to $1 billion in September...
...violent splendors of the Lower Empire: it conjures up the paint of courtesans, the sports of the circus, the breath of the tamers of animals, the bounding of wild beasts, the collapse among the flames of races exhausted by the power of feeling, to the invading sound of enemy trumpets. -Paul Verlaine, circa...
...line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan of recovery. President Carter, worried about recession and unemployment, agreed with Miller...