Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President what he likes to hear, but it turns out he was right," says an aide. What Regan tells Reagan is that the President can cut taxes, increase military spending and still have a sustained economic recovery. Regan won a round earlier this year when Feldstein drastically underestimated the strength of the recovery, earning himself the nickname "Dr. Gloom." More recently Regan has been battling with Feldstein over the deficit. The CEA chairman argues that excessive deficits will drive interest rates high enough to choke off the boom. Regan insists that there is no hard proof of this. Even...
Colleagues of Suleiman praised the appointment, saying that she would add strength to an area they said has been under-repre-sented at the tenured level in her department...
...play's limited action poses a comparable problem. Because so little of Old Acquaintance involves actual physical movement, the play depends heavily upon the strength of its dialogue to carry it through. Moreover, since much of the undercurrent of hostility and sarcasm is subtly woven into the script, delivery is often more important than substance...
...Crusader junior guard Jim Runcie (16 points) and Larry Westbrook (eight-for-10, all from beyond 15 feet) connected from all over the court. And when Harvard played its 3-2 defense more closely, center Ernie Floyd and forwards Walter Coates and Pat Elzie used their quickness and inside strength to give the Cross two or three field goal attempts each trip down the floor...
...MAIN STRENGTH of Pesetsky's novel lies in the character of the narrator-protagonist herself. Never whining, rarely dogmatic, she makes everything in her quirky tale seem perfectly probable, so internalized is the logic. At times, however, the feminist themes do turn reductonist. During one of Harry's visits home, the teenage daughter is wondering whether to take carpentry or ballet as a school elective. Her mother is all for woodwork as opposed to Harry, who advocates that "any girl with swell legs should take ballet." One is left with the lingering suspicion that May could only have married Harry...