Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slap in the face by Harvard. Yale, of course, did not take kindly to a 24-13 thrashing by Dartmouth. Both teams have been filing their incisors for this one. They've got to kick, scratch and bite to stay alive in the Ivy title picture. The Quakers have sharper files. Penn 23, Yale...
Between the end of 1972 and last month, when the latest study was completed, the consumer-confidence index plummeted 19 points to 71.8. That was a much sharper decline than in the 1969-1970 period just preceding the worst of the last recession. The report asserts that public gloom about all kinds of shortages and weaknesses in national leadership will soon show up in substantially reduced buying trends and that "a recession by early next year is possible, perhaps even probable...
...president. In 23 states the total combined votes for the presidential candidates was less than in 1968, despite the new youth vote. While the percentage of those eligible to vote who actually do vote has dropped steadily in the last four presidential elections, the 1972 election showed a much sharper drop...
...contemporary familiarity of a quickie weekend at Esalen. Hermann Hesse's novel has been adapted with stuporous devotion by Conrad Rooks, who in 1967 unleashed Chappaqua, a shambling phantasmagoria of the hallucinatory world of alcoholism and drug addiction. His skills have become no sharper in the intervening years. Siddhartha (Shashi Kapoor), as any campus sophomore would know, spends the better part of his lifetime beating the bushes in search of spiritual insight and fulfillment. It is a hard job achieving nirvana, and seems to require a great deal of sitting by babbling brooks and talking in hushed tones...
...April fell back to an annual rate of 2,100,000, down about 16% from their peak of 2,500,000 in January. The number of new building permits issued across the nation-an indicator of how many starts will be recorded in future months -took an even sharper fall of 18%, to an annual rate of 1,800,000 units (see chart). That was the biggest monthly drop since the Government began tabulating figures on permits more than 80 years ago. "The widely predicted end of the housing boom of 1971-72 has finally arrived," declares George A. Christie...