Word: upbeat
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...handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer when President and Mrs. Reagan...
...upbeat mood about the economy could be seen in the results of a new public opinion poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White. While inflation and unemployment remain the uppermost economic problems in the minds of voters, Americans now give President Reagan credit for making progress on both issues. A strong 69% of those polled approved Reagan's handling of inflation, while 50% credited him with doing a good job dealing with unemployment. Those are large increases from just three months ago, when only 58% of those questioned thought Reagan was fighting inflation effectively, and a mere...
...Jackson, the Alabama draw was an upbeat end to a heady week. Whether his stump-speaking ability will translate into votes is uncertain, even doubtful, if he cannot pull together an efficient campaign organization. But Jackson's stunning reception pointed up a lack of fire in the other candidates. His wife Jacqueline, after listening to his competitors make speeches on the tour, asked bluntly: "Do they really think they can beat Reagan with one of these guys?" After last week, not a few Democrats are quietly asking themselves the same question. -By Evan Thomas...
...White House, the upbeat mood was marred by some nagging warnings from an in-house Cassandra. For weeks, Martin Feldstein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, has been cautioning that unless taxes are raised to cut the nearly $200 billion deficit projected for fiscal year 1984, the good economic news will turn sour. Moreover, Feldstein has been sounding off in public. Irked, the President's senior advisers tried to muzzle him last week with a public reprimand, which then degenerated into gratuitous ridicule. Their heavyhandedness succeeded only in drawing attention to Feldstein's message...
Kohl's upbeat attitude echoed the hopes of many West Europeans that the Soviets might eventually return to the bargaining table through a possible merger of the INF talks with the START negotiations. At week's end, the Soviet party daily Pravda labeled that interpretation a 'shameless deception." If the NATO countries wanted the resumption of the INF talks, the newspaper added, they "should restore the old state of things, when there were no American missiles in Europe...