Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument among investors and market watchers is whether they are witnessing just a brief spurt or a true second leg on the bull market that would take the averages even higher. John Paulus, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley, the investment banking house, had a note of caution. Said he: "The economy still has a good deal of upward momentum, which will have to be moderated by rising interest rates at some point. The gross national product rose 8.8% in the first half of the year and is now moving ahead at between 4% and 5%. That is still...
Critics counter that students already have the right to pray voluntarily whenever they wish. Organized religious meetings, they note, could pressure students into conforming to practices that violate their consciences and could open a back door to school-sponsored prayer. Some fear the bill could turn classrooms into forums for fringe cults, such as the Moonies, and a variety of political and cultural groups, ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to gay rights organizations. A crush of meetings could strain budgets for maintenance and supervision. "The tragedy is that the President has been able to direct attention away from...
...ideas and strategies and ambitions. He is still an object of fascination to his foes as well as his friends. So the tenth anniversary of his departure from the Oval Office will not be a day like the others, even if nothing special happens. "I guess we will take note of it individually and in our own way," John Sears said somewhat reflectively last week. "It was, after all, the end of something." -By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Hays Corey/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York...
...producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important to us as the opening ceremonies are to you." Some mean words later, Wolper prevailed. "I just made the most important note of the day," the producer later told a reporter. "On the day of the opening ceremony, I want my guy to have the key. I want to be able to turn on those sprinklers...
Reagan's ebullience on the road contrasted sharply with his subdued, almost wary mood during a nationally televised press conference earlier in the week. Most of the questions involved campaign topics, and Reagan took pains to answer them cautiously. He opened the session on a deliberately partisan note by challenging the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to act on six pieces of "bottled-up" legislation that form the domestic core of his own re-election platform. The half-dozen purportedly trapped bills include a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, a measure allowing spouses working as homemakers...