Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That was the year that Rinpoche came to these shores, taking off like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with...
...that there was "evidence" that the dollar's fall had bottomed out. Observed Japanese Central Banker Ohta: "Mr. Greenspan made his remark about ((the falling dollar)) when he was an economist, not when he was chairman-designate. So we do not have any concern about it." In his new vein of bankerly circumspection, Greenspan also declared that the "economy, at the moment, looks reasonably strong and hopefully will continue so for the indefinite future...
...Landers column," according to Sun-Times Publisher Robert Page. Crowley's law practice has given her "a lot of experience in solving problems for people," she notes. "I've done divorces. I've done adoptions . . ." Her column, called "Your Problems," is expected to dispense wisdom in the traditional vein, while Zaslow's "All That Zazz" will be, in his own words, more "off-the-wall." Says the soon-to-be married bachelor: "Some days I might just give unsolicited advice to the famous." Once a reporter, always a reporter...
Baker arrived at his Treasury assignment with a reputation as the Administration's Great Persuader, earned during four successful years as White House chief of staff. He carried on in the same vein, altering the confrontational tone of his predecessor (and successor as chief of staff) Donald Regan. On Third World debt issues, for example, Regan had preached the hard-nosed gospel of austerity for debtor nations. Baker soon changed that with his celebrated proposal for debt relief through renewed economic growth, to be fueled in part by some $20 billion in additional loans from commercial banks...
...practiced seducer's rationalization: "What's the harm? Everyone got what they wanted, didn't they?" Heaven help us; it's close to being true. May, whose painstaking ways and modest grosses do not usually commend her to the studios, gets to work in something near her best vein. Hoffman has a role nicely suited to the comic whine of his neuroses. Beatty, 50, has one in which his distracted air and his lack of traditional star presence can be made to look like modesty -- though at his age, his looks are no longer flawlessly tailored to his boyish manner...