Word: sunnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the greatest day of my life," David H. Pollack '85 said. Tom A. Gilson '85 added. "It seems sunnier outside, 20 degrees warmer, and the world seems a friendlier place...
...report released by the U.S. Treasury Department last week is even sunnier. The working paper predicts that if current spending and tax policies remain in effect for the next five years, state surpluses will reach $86.5 billion by 1989. Since such policies will probably be altered to reflect improved balance sheets, the huge surplus "would never actually be realized." Nevertheless, the Treasury report concludes, the states would have "fiscal elbow room" to cut taxes or increase spending and could "comfortably" support current levels of services without raising taxes...
...reason for the sunnier mood is the exuberant U.S. economic recovery, which has stimulated growth around the globe. Indeed, the American surge has been so strong that some economists fear it might eventually force the Federal Reserve to push up interest rates to keep growth under control. The clearest sign of U.S. economic might has been the continuing strength of the American dollar abroad. Last week it hit alltime highs against the British pound and the French franc and climbed to an 11½-year peak against the West German mark. The British pound was worth more than...
Last year some 85 million of them were bought in the U.S. for about $900 million. This year (no sunnier than last) the market will grow by 25%, adding up to more than a billion dollars. Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest...
...where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote, "like hundreds of savage wolves baying for blood...