Word: steadier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin believes that the team is in the right position for closing out its post-season play with a victory. "We're far steadier, and the coach is now working on our mental preparation... the mental aspect may be more important than anything else right...
...Whether he goes for quick fixes and gimmicks or more genuine reforms and progress, Andropov needs to get his relationship with the U.S. on some steadier, safer basis. He needs a deal that will reduce international tensions and enable him to keep his military expenditures within bearable limits...
...guests and responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course, has a steadier hand on the tiller. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/United Nations
...surplus milk, which it does in the form of butter, cheese and dry milk. The idea was to keep the goods in storage during peak production periods, and then sell them back to distributors later in the year when production dropped off. The program gave farmers a steadier income while stabilizing the year-round milk supply for consumers...
Although Western Europe worries about the future of the SALT II treaty, which it considers the cornerstone of détente, the NATO nations believe that Reagan will engineer a steadier and more forceful foreign policy than Carter. The West Germans are encouraged by the fact that Reagan's advisers include George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, all men they admire. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt never tried to hide his scorn for Carter's vacillating and moralizing approach to international issues. Says one Schmidt aide: "Thank God the days of the Washington zigzag are over...