Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden clash of gears and a loudly laboring engine stir the place into action. Seconds later, as a flatbed lurches into the market, a hoarse cheer goes up and women pour down stairs and out of doorways. The truck is loaded with sacks of potatoes...
...fear that their forecast may be too optimistic. Eckstein sees a 1-in-5 chance that frenzied borrowing, and buying of houses and other goods by consumers before prices go up even more, would continue to keep expansion rolling through much of next year. It would be nothing to cheer about, he adds, because inflation would continue to accelerate and the Government would have to press down even harder on the economy. Result: a recession that does not start until late 1979 but is then worse than anybody now foresees, lasting for as many as four quarters and sending...
...beneath the session's cheer, there was an undercurrent of feeling among many Democratic factions that Carter is not really their President. Black leaders have been particularly vocal in their discontent, but it is shared by others: labor, Jews, intellectuals, farmers, urban leaders and old-line machine politicians feel a wariness about the man. Says former Iowa Democratic Chairman Clifton Larson: "There is an acceptance after Camp David that he doesn't screw things up, but there is no support for him. The liberals don't want to be identified with the Carter position-or oppose...
...your holidays ring with mirth and good cheer...
Brustein can officially cheer from the Harvard bleachers now that the Board of Overseers approved his appointment as director of the Loeb Drama Center, starting in the fall of 1980. Both the Corporation and the Overseers voted Monday to appoint Brustein director, allowing him to lead an undergraduate drama program and base a professional repertory company at the Loeb...