Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Celeste, a Democrat, generally won high marks for his decisive and tireless handling of the crisis, some critics think that freezing the thrifts was the wrong move. "Ohio overreacted, turning a regional problem into a worldwide scare," says Leonard Santow, a Wall Street consultant. Many experts believe Celeste could have halted the panic by bailing out the thrifts immediately with cash borrowed from the Federal Reserve...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl conceded that the setback for his Christian Democrats in the economically depressed Saarland was "very painful." Privately, he ascribed it to the tireless zest of Lafontaine, who represents an emerging group of left-wing Social Democrats who are calling for their country's withdrawal from NATO's military structure and an end to U.S. missile deployment in West Germany...
...three months leading up to Christmas, the workers at Apple Computer toiled like tireless elves. Dealers, bent on avoiding a shortage of the company's products, had ordered some 800,000 machines, nearly three times as many as they had the previous Yule season. But sales were weaker than expected, creating a springtime Apple glut of some 120,000 unsold computers. As a result, the company (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) announced last week that for the first time in its eight-year history it will temporarily shut down assembly lines because of a surplus of wares. Calling the hiatus...
Lauper is nominated for five Grammies, including Best New Artist. She is also a) nice to her mom, with whom she frequently appears in photos and whom she cast in three of her wacky videos; b) tireless, until very recently, in her pursuit of media exposure (appearances during the past six months have included telethons and Dr. Ruth Westheimer's TV sex-advice show); and c) a wrestling fan, who has shown up at ringside to bait her sometime buddy, Captain Lou Albano, with a rush of feminist banter and a fan's hortatory impertinence...
...organization under control, Ruppe emphasized careful budgeting and planning and strict adherence to Government procurement policies, while spearheading the aggressive recruitment of specialists and better training of generalists. Ruppe has been a tireless booster, visiting 39 of the 60 countries served by the Peace Corps and winning valuable publicity for the agency. "We are career ambassadors around the world," says Ruppe. "We have come a long way from the days when we were called Kennedy's kids. In the '80s we have grown and matured...