Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diva of the dawn's early light is worth $1 million a year to them at night. Most industry analysts seem to think she is. For one thing, ABC executives hope that her departure from NBC'S Today show will deepen that program's recent ratings slide, to the pleasure and profit of ABC's competing Good Morning, America. NBC may well move fast to replace Walters. Some candidates: Candice Bergen, Betty Furness. Bess Myerson and Shana Alexander...
...Though the book is divided into four parts--"Origins," "Growing Up", "Coming Apart", "Where We Are Now"--their intent is garbled, and it is completely unclear whether the progression is intended to be a historical survey of madness up through our time, or a portrait of the individual's slide into insanity. He discusses the great madmen of the past, both historical and literary, in the same breath as incidents and personages of contemporary madness. Interspersed with this plethora of examples are the case histories of six individuals whom society at one time deemed insane, and whom he now describes...
...last one, and when it gets to be my turn I slide up to the podium and wait a couple of half-seconds to let everyone calm down from laughing so hard at the last person, whose speech was kind of funny. I had around three or four English accents I do it in--ones I had practiced while walking between classes or back to my room--but I decided on the kind of low and earnest voice, what I thought a soldier might sound like. When I got into it, I felt like...
Market-shelf prices actually fell from January to February; the decline was only 1.5%, but it was the biggest monthly slide in the grocery component of the consumer price index since the early 1950s. The sharpest drop occurred in the area where housewives had been hit hardest: the meat case. Beef prices plunged 6% as cattlemen, reacting to dwindling demand, trimmed the sizes of their herds and pumped beef onto the market. Beef prices may well rebound in coming weeks as supplies begin to tighten again: when store prices begin to edge up, hamburger will probably rise relatively more than...
...Crop. The dynamics of U.S. food production has not been so balanced in favor of the consumer since 1971. Dairy prices have gone up 6.5% in recent months, but a decline soon is almost assured because milk production is rising; butter and milk prices are beginning to slide at the wholesale level. Bountiful supplies are also depressing poultry prices. By late summer, say economists, the cost of pork should tumble as more of the big crop of hogs farrowed last winter comes to market. Canners' and distributors' stocks of most fruits and vegetables are large, and in some...