Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute address, interrupted some three dozen times by applause, was upbeat, inspirational and politically calculating. While emphasizing the need for bipartisanship, it was carefully worded to shore up Reagan's points of vulnerability and pre-empt Democratic issues. In classic campaign style, the speech contained something for everyone: for conservatives, a pitch for school prayer; for liberals, a pledge of stepped-up attempts to fight environmental pollution; for hawks, expressions of pride in strengthened military forces; for doves, a repetition of a standard line, this time ostensibly addressed to the people of the Soviet Union, that "a nuclear war cannot...
...downs, but it isn't expected in a national company like the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). The troupe's performance Tuesday night at the Wang Center for the performing Arts was very inconsistent beginning with a disappointingly, syrupy piece and then finishing with a brilliant, upbeat dance...
...airborne spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult. I hope she doesn't let the emotion take over." Sumners admits to an extreme, storybook am bition. "I want...
...Many political experts had doubts. "Jesse can get every political prisoner released in the world, and he can't be nominated," contended Joe Reed, chairman of the all-black Alabama Democratic Conference, which has endorsed Mondale for President and Jackson for Vice President. Jackson, naturally, took a more upbeat view. "God will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political rally with Goodman in Portsmouth on Saturday were nixed by the Navy, which said its regulations...
...little more than a year ago, the U.S. was mired in its deepest and most painful slump since the Great Depression. Since then, the economy has been recovering rapidly, and upbeat indicators have become fairly common. But by any standard, last week's good news was simply dazzling. The economy seemed to be letting out a shout of joy that echoed from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue...