Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Choate or a good public high school, it's run of the mill. I was ill-prepared, I didn't know how to study when I came here. Besides, I was the first All-American at the school, and they took care of me, you know, they let things slide they shouldn't have let slide...
...city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed...
...slide began early in the week, when both Exxon and U.S. Steel announced lower second-quarter earnings. Then on Wednesday came a shocker from Bethlehem Steel, which reported an operating loss of $75.4 million for the first half and cut its dividend. With that, the slide turned to slaughter: in frantic trading, the Dow plunged almost 20 points. For the week, it closed down 33 points, at 890.07, almost 10% below its January level...
...these countries have been extremely reluctant to comply for fear of igniting a new round of inflation. The growing U.S. deficits have been of concern to foreign money men; about a month ago they began dumping their dollar holdings to buy stronger currencies-thus setting off the current slide in the value of the greenback...
Risky Game. Reaction in Europe to the dollar's plunge was mixed. Furious West German bankers charged that when they refused to bend to U.S. pressure and revalue the mark, Blumenthal resorted to stealth to accomplish his ends. They said he deliberately provoked the dollar's slide; the U.S., rasped the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was playing "a selfish, risky game that shows little responsibility toward the world economy." In Britain, the Bank of England responded to the dollar's decline by abandoning a policy of keeping the pound at a level of $1.72. Instead, the government...