Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brandon. Valerie Beck is also superb as the tipsy, irreverent flapper Leila Arden. Adam Selipsky was less successful at portraying the weak, drunken Granillo, turning to over-acting at times--it is hard to imagine a college kid literally shrieking with nerves. And Charlie Kempf was guilty of a touch of woodenness, even in the role of the basically awkward and wooden Kenneth Raglan, the varsity athlete...
...read with a touch of amusement "Plastic Armor of God" (November 2), Laurie M. Grossman's account of her visit to Heritage U.S.A. I've often wondered exactly how garish a "Christian" theme park could be. Now I know...
...vivid presence in the American consciousness, seemed, for a time at least, to be lost, almost vanishing. One thought of a line from A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin: "The number-one managerial productivity problem in America is, quite simply, managers who are out of touch with their people and out of touch with their customers." The President and his customers were living on different planets...
Free-marketeers like Feldstein would just as soon let that happen and get it over with. Says Herbert Stein: "The dollar should be allowed to decline as far and as fast as it will." But that course runs a gigantic risk: a free- falling dollar could easily touch off a panic flight of foreign capital from the U.S. That is about the last thing anyone wants, since it could trigger a worldwide financial collapse. It would be much better to renegotiate the Louvre accord to allow a gentle, managed decline in the dollar. As part of such an agreement, foreign...
...Monday, Howard Baker was on the telephone almost all day long, keeping in touch with old colleagues on Capitol Hill, where he had once been Republican Senate leader, and phoning people on Wall Street, including New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Phelan, to get market reports. At 3:40 p.m., 20 minutes before the close of trading, the chief of staff and Duberstein called at the Oval Office to give Reagan a market status report. But prices were tumbling too rapidly for anyone to keep track of them. Reagan, as his later statements indicated, simply did not know what...