Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amount riding on that." The worst seemed past and, even more important, Mondale felt his instincts about Ferraro had been vindicated. After her "superb performance," he told reporters, "I'm even more confident that I made the right choice. There has been a clear demonstration here of leadership, of strength, of candor, of values that the American people will respond to favorably...
...there is to be a Republican dynasty ahead in the White House it is Reagan's belief it will rest on a healthy economy. The G.O.P. will gain strength "if we're successful in what we're trying to accomplish, and we've been successful so far-this recovery is evidence of that. I'm sorry, I said 'recovery.' I've had economists tell me that I should be calling it an 'expansion.' We're past the recovery stage. But if we are, then I think the pattern...
Clements wasn't ornery when we talked in his office. He looked like a scholar surrounded by his books, like a scholar who had known action somewhere; a Harry Truman or John Wooden. "Free spirit, high energy, risk taking, the strength of one's convictions-that's what Dallas is all about," said Clements. "All these marvelous buildings." He gestured toward downtown. "These buildings only exist because of entrepreneurs...
...Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes of strength and serenity, rather than with the violence prophesied by the government, Filipinos last week marked the first anniversary of Aquino's murder in the largest protest outpouring in Manila since his funeral...
...employer tells Erdosain that he must repay the money he has stolen or face jail, and his wife informs him that she is running off with another man. He luxuriates in grief raised to a higher power: "If he had had the strength, he would have thrown himself down a well...