Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hughes, cutting short a trip to the Middle East, jetted back to the state and imposed controls on withdrawals. By keeping the thrifts open, he managed to bring the blood pressure of depositors down a few points. Even so, the $1,000 limit sparked bitter complaints from small companies that needed to meet payrolls and from customers who need money for large purchases. A few thrifts affronted consumers with the final insult by offering to lend them money instead, at rates of about...
...YORK. I saved up enough money for a one-way ticket and flew to New York. It was my first plane trip. When I got off the plane, I got in a taxi and told the driver to take me to the middle of everything. That turned out to be Times Square. I think the cab driver was saying, like, "O.K., I'll show her something." I think he got a chuckle out of that. I got out of the cab and I was overwhelmed because the buildings, you know, are really high. I walked east on 42nd Street...
...Portela Military Airport in Lisbon, the final stop on the Reagans' Euro- pean trip, they were greeted by President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Portugal's leader is one of Reagan's biggest European boosters, and the crowd waved American flags and held up a banner reading WE LOVE REAGAN. At the Portuguese parliament, the President laughed off another Communist walkout ("I'm sorry that some of the chairs on the left seem to be uncomfortable") and hailed the host country's eleven-year-old democracy. Said Reagan: "It is the democratic world that is flexible, vibrant and growing --bringing its people...
...Queluz Palace last Friday, a chipper Reagan held a press conference ) to mark the end of his European journey. White House Aide Michael Deaver had called it "without question the hardest trip of his presidency," and Reagan admitted "some anguishing moments" along with "many highs." Declared he: "We are returning home, mission accomplished...
More impartial witnesses gave his trip mixed reviews. The Bonn economic summit ended in disappointment when French President Francois Mitterrand refused to join the other leaders in agreeing to a new round of trade talks. Reagan managed to defuse the Bitburg uproar, but the incident nevertheless left a sour taste. By and large, however, Reagan handled his diplomatic duties with sensitivity and skill. Whether they liked him or not, Europeans could no longer dismiss him as an unschooled cowboy, as they did a few short years...