Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avowed purpose of issuing the don't-hit list was to redeem Reagan's pledge that his spending cuts would not hurt the "truly needy." But many veterans and Social Security pensioners scarcely meet the stern definition of truly needy people offered by OMB Associate Director Donald Moran: "People who in the absence of Government benefits could not survive...
Those harsh words, first spoken at a closed-door party committee meeting in Warsaw, were broadcast throughout the nation on state radio. They appeared to be a stern, perhaps final warning to Solidarity to end the scattered strikes and sit-ins that have cost the economy more than $100 million in the past month...
Western Europe clearly faces the frustrating choice of dependence upon unstable Middle East supplies or questionable Soviet ones. Says British Energy Expert Jonathan Stern: "Western critics simply don't acknowledge the realities of Europe's energy dilemma. Europe is a big net energy importer, and it has to get its fuel some place." Given that situation, the West European decision seems unavoidable. - By Alexander Taylor...
...brother Sam Bottoms, playing Adam's son Cal. The casting of brothers in father and son roles must have seemed like a coup to the producers. But Timothy, who virtually patented adolescent winsomeness in The Last Picture Show, has yet to mature as an actor. As the stern father, he is all jutting chin and squints and false heartiness; he frets and preens like the jeune premier in a Feydeau farce. To say that Sam Bottoms is not James Dean is to say that a Big Mac is no Chateaubriand. There are no secrets, no demons...
...fashion industry are from the U.S. Japanese talent scouts are so avid for fresh faces that they hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo has had to issue a stern advisory to parents that it disapproves of this practice. In England, however, where Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton got their start, brutal taxes have persuaded most of the internationally known photographers to emigrate, and the business no longer flourishes...