Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After returning from political oblivion last August, he acquired a strong reputation for vigor and rectitude, appointing experts instead of political cronies to a number of difficult government jobs, launching an effective energy conservation program, implementing a tough anti-terrorist law and pushing an ambitious three-year economic program. Now, once again because of terrorism, he was fighting for his political life...
...Florida has been one factor in making blacks there (citizens with deep and painful roots in the American past) feel even more intensely wronged than blacks elsewhere in the nation. Latins argue that the Cubans (450,000 in Dade County alone) have accelerated business development, brought fresh blood and vigor to the area, and thus more jobs. That is true. In fact, the entire logic of immigration rests upon the fact that immigrants are almost always an asset, a new presence, a little bit frightened and often left ingenious. But the Latin renaissance has left blacks in an unhappy third...
...institutions' increasing dependence on the federal government. As Stanford president Richard Lyman explains, Bok has "raised problems we didn't have in the last 15 years," warning--as he did in a recent article--that government "can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its education and vigor...
...Ellen Whitcombe's screenplay. With her untamed chestnut mane and snapping blue eyes, Davis is unforgettable as the willful Sybylla. Rarely has an actor brought such a unique vitality and integrity to the screen. In a script without a lot of dialogue, Davis delivers every line with a vigor that imbues her character with a complexity and depth that is not written into the script. She moves as if she were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion for living. Sybylla becomes a firecracker, exploding...
This is the "Rose Garden strategy" that began almost accidentally as an outgrowth of Carter's preoccupation with the Iranian seizure of 50 American hostages. Then, as the polls showed Americans rallying around their President, he moved with vigor and anger to condemn the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan, and he demanded that the Soviets be punished for it. Victory followed victory in the primary election campaign, and the Rose Garden strategy became a way of life. But last week a series of blunders and setbacks revealed the isolated President to be somehow out of touch with...