Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robertson tried to keep his mouth shut, he still couldn't keep his foot out of it. He's a Republican, he said, because in the U.S. the G.O.P. alone stands for freedom. He thinks it high time America set out to decolonize the Soviet Union. And he'd sooner "believe in the Great Pumpkin and the Tooth Fairy" before he'd believe the Sandinistas would give up a smidgeon of power voluntarily...
...first national insurance company to include coverage for alcoholism in all its group policies. The firm's hunch: the bill for helping an alcoholic quit today would be cheaper than nursing him through afflictions like cirrhosis of the liver and strokes later in life. The logic of acting sooner rather than later has since spread throughout corporate America. Some 10,000 firms and public agencies, including 70% of the FORTUNE $ 500 companies, now have employee-assistance programs to help alcohol and drug abusers pull their lives together and get back to work. "Before this," says William Durkin, employee assistant manager...
...Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from the worst qualifications for judging the most explosive issues in American life, all of which sooner or later wind up before the Supreme Court...
Every President sooner or later has to cut a deal with that thing we call Washington, or else he will be scorned, humiliated or simply brushed aside. Most of them hate it. The wise ones finally accept...
...serious nature of the events he depicts and the humorous episodes he describes. The serious often descends into the sentimental and the humorous into the cute. One moment, the family's house is burned to the ground, forcing them to move in with mother's grandparents. But no sooner are they there then Grandpa's comic zaniness changes the mood, as he interrupts breakfast on the veranda to shoot at a rat in his vegetable garden. The scene is absurd enough to make a Scrooge laugh, but it hangs loosely between serious scenes of death and destruction...