Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investors across the U.S. are caught up in the excitement. "Sitting on money was no fun any more," says Steven Geringer, vice president of a Nashville organization that helps schools with fund-raising drives. "Everybody wants to gamble again." Complains Scott Stern, an executive for an Atlanta firm that owns bowling alleys: "A few weeks ago my broker called me three times a day with stock tips. Now phoning him is like trying to call an airline in December." Because shareholders suddenly feel richer, the stock rally could help boost consumer spending and give a lift to the entire economy...
...from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic, and his thoughts to the challenge upon which he was embarking. Then each crossed the starting line and began a 27,000-mile competitive voyage that should bring the winner...
Although your intentions are laudable, you seem to taunt those individuals who are not stern believers in sexual austerity. The message appears to be that anyone who gets herpes certainly deserves it and that it is a damn good thing this epidemic came along to bring back the good old days...
Ronald Reagan made a point of not smiling when he took his seat in the White House Cabinet Room across from Yitzhak Shamir. The studied gesture was designed to reinforce the stern words he coldly read to Israel's Foreign Minister. An Israeli attack against the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas in West Beirut ran the risk of threatening the special relationship between Washington and Jerusalem...
Rochberg has since refined his neo-tonal style in such works as the String Quartets Nos. 4, 5 and 6, known collectively as the "Concord" Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...