Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elated. Your "America's Upbeat Mood" [NATION, Sept. 24] article captures the essence of the prevailing U.S. spirit. How refreshing to read that we are celebrating our nation and that displaying affection for our country is in vogue. This radiating sentiment invigorates and livens our communities. It rejuvenates our purpose as a nation...
...current upbeat and patriotic mood of the nation is in large measure attributable to President Reagan. He has told us what is right about us and about the country. It stands to reason that, after being constantly told what is wrong for the past ten years, Americans would think kindly of a man who could tell them what is right about themselves...
Your article describing America's upbeat mood cites patriotism for the increase in military enlistment. In our area, high school graduates who cannot afford the increasing cost of a college education have two options: a minimum-wage job or military service. Military service provides better pay, as well as benefits that cannot be found in the private sector...
...Steel. Whether in an Iowa field, on a street in Hammonton, N.J., or on the Waterbury, Conn., town green, he was highly visible but almost invulnerable. His handlers continue to limit his contact with insistent journalists and give him vague, breezy speeches to deliver to friendly crowds. His upbeat rhetoric in Waterbury was quintessential Reagan: "We say America should shoot for the stars, strive for the best and, like our Olympic athletes, go for it." The strategy seemed clear: keep people smiling, and avoid potentially unbecoming wrangling with Mondale on matters of substance...
...times, have been particularly solemn over the past two years as they struggled with the Third World's staggering debt problems. But the financiers arriving in Washington for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were in an upbeat mood. Gone was the near panic that swept the same meeting in 1982 after Mexico declared that it could not make its loan payments on schedule. Now the bankers and ministers share a growing optimism about the health of the world economy...