Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...speaker was Republican Economist Alan Greenspan, but the sentiment was shared by each of his colleagues on the TIME Board of Economists, which gathered last week to examine the economic outlook for 1981. To a man, the board agreed that the weakened U.S. economy simply cannot endure many more shocks and setbacks like those that have afflicted it for the past two years. The tone of the meeting, the fourth and final of a troubled year, was similar to that set by David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's designated new budget director, and New York Congressman Jack Kemp. Three weeks...
...also announced that it was dispatching a fact-finding mission to El Salvador; it will be headed by William D. Rogers, who served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The ruling junta blamed the murders on right-wing terrorists bent on stopping any buildup of leftist sentiment...
...Union's." The President-elect inspired somewhat less hope on economic problems; 56% expected him to reduce inflation, and 54% thought he would be able to cut unemployment. Significantly, however, 62% of those inter viewed believed he would "restore the confidence of the American people in Government"-a sentiment damaged in the past by Viet Nam and Watergate...
...while. Although the album is selling well enough, it is not a huge commercial hit, and so far There Goes the Neighborhood has not been spotted anywhere near the Top 40. Stevie Wonder assured the Bus Boys of his enthusiasm but warned that other blacks might not share the sentiment. "I'm not worried about blacks liking this," Brian insists. "And I'm not worried about whom we offend. Most themes for black contemporary music are party-love-dance. I think we will hit black audiences hard...
...other critics who want to purge it of the male chauvinism that they find running all through its pages. Says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, a United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets the royalties. The RSV has been a success largely because of its preservation of much...