Word: proudest
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...meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America; yet her proudest moment was sharing a podium with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1963 civil rights march on Washington...
...Reagan's proudest economic achievement, taming the inflation rate from 12.5% in 1980 to 4.4% last year, has also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
...remarkably rugged, durable automobile, America's economy has motored through some of the harshest possible conditions without losing its momentum. The recovery has dodged hazards ranging from the October 1987 stock-market crash to last summer's drought. The longevity of the expansion, one of the Reagan Administration's proudest legacies, defies all odds. During the past 130 years, the U.S. economy has suffered a recession on the average of once every 4.3 years. But the current growth period, now entering its seventh year, is by far the longest peacetime boom in U.S. history. The economy, says Lawrence Kudlow, chief...
...help / find solutions, and that by definition meant international solutions." So we invited a distinguished group of scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents to a TIME conference charged with producing a tough but realistic action program. The conference was organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. His proudest coup was to persuade a team of Soviet experts to participate. The group was led by Fyodor Morgun, Mikhail Gorbachev's hand-picked chairman of the state committee for environmental protection...
Housing: One of the proudest achievements of the post-World War II economy was converting the U.S. from a nation of renters to one of homeowners. But in the past eight years, home ownership has declined for the first time since 1940. The fall has been sharpest for young families; for people between 35 and 39, the percentage owning their own homes has dropped from 61% to 53% since Reagan became President. Middle-class salaries have simply fallen far short of the inflation in housing costs: today's average home buyer has to save 50% of / a full year...