Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this stage of all previous recoveries, interest rates were rising as businessmen gobbled up loans to finance expansion and build inventories. But this time interest rates throughout the recovery's first year have continued the slide that began during the recession. The prime rate charged by banks to their most credit-worthy customers has dropped from a sky-high 12% in mid-1974 to 6¾% now. Yields on high-quality corporate bonds have held almost unchanged, and those on "federal funds" -money that banks lend overnight to each other-are less than half the almost...
...both sides of legislation to aid debt-ridden New York City, to permit a single picketing union to shut down an entire construction project, to strengthen antitrust laws, to reduce income taxes. When his since-departed campaign manager, Bo Callaway, greased the skids for Nelson Rockefeller's slide from the 1976 Ford ticket, the President's silence made him appear weak or devious...
Improbable Beginning. Those have not always been apt adjectives for Italy's Christian Democrats, who have held national power longer than any other Western European party-and with considerable benefit for Italy. Then how to account for the party's steep decline, a slide that poses serious questions not only for the long-term survival of democracy in Italy but for the future of NATO and the European Community as well...
...Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times. In 1966 she married Lawrence Fanning, a Field editor, but instead of settling in Chicago they stayed in Anchorage and bought the Daily News for $450,000. Under Kay Fanning's guidance, the paper has been fighting to reverse a long circulation slide and last year signed a money-saving joint printing, advertising and circulation agreement with the Times...
...this particular day, the student porter meets dissatisfaction face to face in the person of an irate female physics major, who flags him down with her slide rule halfway up the staircase...