Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Twas the month before Christ-mas-and retailers everywhere were poised for what could be the best selling season in five years. Last week the release of two important economic measurements confirmed the upbeat forecasts...
Ernst was the only upbeat story on offense that day, picking up 102 yards on the ground. Against Princeton he switched to fullback, where he's been playing successfully ever since. The Dartmouth game was the first of three consecutive 100-yard games for the senior...
During the period he mentions, several of my productions were broadcast in West Germany. They were upbeat, with positive contents, and they received favorable reviews throughout the country. But Uncle Sam does not understand that Germans no longer act like the TV Hogan's Heroes characters Sergeant Schultz and Colonel Klink; rather, they exercise critical faculties and display self-respect...
...naughty. Observes Kalman Ruttenstein, a vice president at Bloomingdale's, Manhattan's ultra-chic department store: "Often in tough economic times, designers lose their sense of whimsy and feel that women prefer to invest in serious clothing. But this season the clothes are perky and upbeat." Perry Ellis is showing a line of cotton and linen boat-neck tops that can easily slip down on one side to uncover a shoulder, as Jennifer Beals' sweatshirt did in the movie Flashdance...
...from the last two polls: in March those who judged the nation to be heading downhill held the lead 54% to 45%, and last December the pessimists' edge was lopsided, 65% to 35%. Indeed, the current poll shows the first majority since September 1981 for those taking the upbeat view...