Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in a city apartment and riding a trolley to work, people wanted a home in the suburbs and an auto or preferablly two. As a consequence, mass transit became caught in a vicious downward spiral: the more riders that were lost the worse the service became; in turn, bad service drove away additional riders...
...this bad time for auto sales, Chrysler has been hit harder than its competitors because it tends to market relatively more big cars, vans, trucks and recreational vehicles. The company's unit sales are off 16.9% for the year so far, vs. 5.3% for General Motors and 16.2% for Ford. At its present pace, Chrysler would need more than 200 days to sell off the substantial inventories of its big New Yorker and St. Regis models. In May lacocca announced the closing of the second plant in 30 days, the large factory in Hamtramck, Mich...
...most investors the stock market is the Dow Jones industrial average, that index of 30 stocks whose price fluctuations are a barometer of good and bad times. But complaints are common that the Dow is not really a representative market measure. In hopes of improving it, the Wall Street Journal, which selects the stocks that make up the average, has revised it for the first time in 20 years. Result: the Dow now reflects almost 25% of the market value of all 1,566 New York Stock Exchange listings, vs. 19.3% before...
...Times, having rejected an offer from Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal to play a supporting role to Kerr's lead in the theater section. Said Eder of his unexpectedly brief engagement: "I think my work is valuable and honest and would have liked it to go on. I feel bad at being offered a demotion...
Questions about profits lead to questions about size. The spread of newspaper chains and one-newspaper cities is, to be sure, a cause for concern. Yet smallness as such is not necessarily good: it guarantees neither quality nor independence. Bigness as such is not necessarily bad: in most cases, large resources improve a publication. Nor does the size of some enterprises keep new publications out. The number of small publications is growing and their diversity is dazzling. The really remarkable phenomenon of recent years is not so much the growth of communications companies, but the spread of highly organized special...