Word: robust
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Businessmen regard Regan as sensitive to their need to raise new capital to spur investment, industrial growth and productivity-all the things that the "Reaganauts" claim must be done if inflation is to be stemmed and the economy steered along a path of robust recovery. There are, however, some reservations about Regan among career officials at Treasury. As Merrill Lynch's chairman, he rarely expressed thoughts about economic policies beyond stating their impact on the securities industry. For instance, in a speech last month to the senior staff of the New York Stock Exchange, he declared, "Most...
...better. Demand is strong for almost any sort of electronic gadget, from programmable calculators to video games. Sales of computer-based "smart toys" like Simon, which uses increasingly complex patterns of flashing colors and sounds as a space-age update of the old Simon Says schoolyard game, are especially robust...
Generational hubris has always been especially robust in the children of the postwar baby boom; their sheer numbers gave many of them a swelling sense of their own inevitability, their unique moral Tightness. Everything they did was done in the incandescent certainty, the grand optical illusion, that it had never, ever been tried or felt before. No doubt as the baby boomers pass on through life, their millennial pretensions will do for middle age and old age what they did for youth in the '60s: in 35 years will come geriatric chic, revolution in the nursing homes. But just...
...marked improvement over the stop-and-go economic policies of Jimmy Carter, which thwarted anti-inflation efforts and severely complicated corporate planning. Still, honeymoons have a way of ending abruptly. The burden will be on the new Republican in the White House to prove that he can deliver a robust economy...
...they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four lovers interact with a vigor that sometimes shakes the planks of the set, providing an object lesson in how these roles can both stand out individually and click with their counterparts...