Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Craig Roberts, who was an Assistant Treasury Secretary during 1981 and 1982, kept minimizing the problem. Said he in 1984: "Deficits are on the way out." Later the Administration's budgeteers grew so wary of mentioning the prospect of new taxes that they started calling it the T word...
...close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy rose as it spread once again around the globe. On Tuesday stock prices fell by 12.2% in London, 15% in Tokyo, 6% in Paris and 6.7% in Toronto...
...Reagan might be able to open the session -- his first in the White House in seven months -- by announcing that the summit had finally been scheduled. But Shultz had not yet completed his talks; when a reporter raised the subject, Reagan could merely state, "We don't have a word yet or a date yet." Then he went on to muse about how he would like the Soviet leader "to see a great deal of America." They might end up, he said, at his ranch near Santa Barbara. "I've thought it would be kind of nice to invite...
Hopefully, you no longer object to sentences that begin with the modifier hopefully. If you do, forget it; the battle is lost. On the other hand, if you still insist that infer and imply mean two different things, hang tough, despite accusations of being a word prig; this is one the word prigs could win. As for the plural-singular identity crises suffered by words like data and media, stand by; they could go either...
...nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...