Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peace through strength. Economic growth without inflation. A return to old-fashioned values...
...kind of swooping, swanlike glide with the difficult IVi airborne spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult. I hope she doesn't let the emotion take over." Sumners admits...
...Volcker has built a daunting political power base. When his term was running out last summer, Volcker's clout in Congress and the financial community helped him survive a campaign by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan to prevent his reappointment. Now the Federal Reserve chairman has again shown his strength. In a battle among top Government officials, Volcker has blocked a plan that would have diminished the Federal Reserve's powers over U.S. banks as part of an effort to centralize the regulation of financial institutions in a new federal banking agency...
...discovery of "diamonds in this filth" has given rise to another assumption that Frank would like to refute: "One often reads that, after a certain point, the distinction between right and wrong began to blur for Dostoevsky himself, and that he came to admire criminals for their 'strength' (as Stendhal had done earlier and Nietzsche was to do later)." Frank's narrative and evidence prove that Dostoevsky's long exile made him a fierce patriot and moralist, insistent that individual acts incur inescapable responsibility. It is only selected Western eyes that have seen the experimenting murderer...
...Washington, and will go to Paris in March. "A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910" may be the best survey show of its kind ever held. Certainly it will be the first time that this area of American art has been seen in proper concentration and strength in Europe...