Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...think that we are at a very major watershed in this country. The chips are down. We either make a significant turn at this point, or we are going to be fighting economic stagnation for the next decade...
...opinion of most board members, the real economic flash point in 1981 is likely to be the new President's plan of radical cuts in both Government spending and taxes. Reagan's "supplyside" economic strategists have defended the program as a bold policy to stimulate savings and investment that will beat inflation by boosting productivity and business output. They argue that the U.S.'s economic ills have been caused primarily by excessive taxes, which have removed the incentive of individuals and companies to work harder producing goods and services. Board Member Greenspan, a close adviser to President...
Doctors in Britain, including Neurologist Bryan Jennett and Surgeon Robert Sells, who were interviewed on the program, are crying foul. In a barrage of letters to newspapers and medical journals, they claim, with some justice, that the show distorted facts. They point out that brain-death codes were set up not to ease transplants but to spare families draining bedside vigils. Says Jennett: "Only one in eight or nine patients taken off respirators ever becomes a donor...
...full of gags about having two faces and two chins. Then there is Curtis as a relentlessly crass producer. "Get me the Coast!" he shouts into the phone at an uncomprehending English operator. Pause, and then an anguished yelp: "What do you mean, which coast?" But perhaps the high point of this nonsense comes when Taylor, who appears to be an awfully good sport, is musing before her mirror: "Bags, bags go away. Come again on Doris...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...