Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gonna go where I'm going," he says, "and I'll be looking for a range of things from government to industry. There are potentials I haven't even explored because I've been at Harvard." Unlike many others, Baxter's story, at least to date, ends on an upbeat note. "In a way, I appreciate the way things worked out," he says. "I'm fortunate the job market has been so tight--it forced me to ask some question I wouldn't have asked otherwise...
...holds there, as a few economists predict, and taxes are reduced by more than $20 billion. Says Murray Weidenbaum: "It now seems probable that the worst may be over. The odds are that 1975, the year that began on such a pessimistic downbeat, will end on an optimistic upbeat...
Last week, however, White House Staff Chief Donald Rumsfeld observed: "I think the President has put his house in order." Events seemed to support that judgment. Ford returned from a conference with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing in an upbeat mood. While reducing differences on their approaches to dealing with the oil cartel, the two leaders also defrosted Franco-American relations a bit. At home, the Administration's energy experts finally completed the package of options from which Ford must select hard choices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Rumsfeld finished work on a White House staff overhaul...
...tribute, especially when station employees can hardly be taken in by one of Bennett's simplest but highly effective ploys, which is to ever so slightly increase the speed of selected pop songs. This device makes other stations sound slow while Bennett's pace seems distinctly upbeat...
...serve as a source for lyrics that have won her a strong cult following. The lyrics produced by Minnie Riperton, 26, are a bit less worldly. Her songs about personal motivation, spiced with a soupçon of I'm O.K.-You're O.K. philosophy, are deliciously upbeat. Few miss the message, since several years of operatic vocal training have given her a five-octave range...