Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...split sharply over whether that new approach is working, and there was also disagreement about whether Volcker will continue to pursue it in the new Administration taking office next month. Democrat Eckstein wondered about how many more times the Fed will feel compelled to "beat the economy about the head" before people believe that the bank is serious about controlling the money supply. Eckstein jokingly asked whether the Federal Reserve's vacillating policy of first tight money and then loose money was creating "the six-month business cycle," alternating between boom and bust...
...doctors to determine "brain death." The concept holds that a person is dead when the brain has permanently stopped functioning; the heart and lungs can be kept going by machines. In Britain, doctors must figure out what caused the patient's condition-say, a blow to the head-and then do an extensive series of tests. Among them: shining light into the eyes to see if the pupils contract, spurting ice-cold water into the ears to check whether the eyes react by quivering. In the U.S., physicians also often do an electroencephalogram (EEG) to confirm that there...
...hero, played by E.G. Marshall, was once the head of a great bank. He embezzled funds in a desperate move to protect his depositors, was caught out and spent five years in prison. For the past eight years he has paced an upper room in his bleak house, unspoken to by his wife Gunhild (Rosemary Murphy) as he broods over past wounds and dreams an illusory comeback...
...patronizing attitudes that greeted her work that Beatrix Potter denied creating for the young: "I write to please my self," she insisted. And P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, sardonically concurred: "I didn't write for children at all ... the idea simply didn't enter my head. I am bound to assume that there is such a field as children's books - I hear about it so often - but I wonder if it is a valid one or whether it has not been created less by writers than by publishers and booksellers. I am always astonished when...
...likely to affect Sendak's life or style. After 35 years of remarkable work he is more preoccupied with the inside than the outside over there. Recently he watched a father carrying his young son in a backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what...