Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roller-coaster 1920s were particularly bad times for small business. Economic growth gyrated wildly, but the overall trend was briskly upward. In 1922 the economy expanded at an extraordinary rate of nearly 16%, but business failures also leaped up, to 23,676 for the year, or 120 per 10,000 firms. In 1924 economic growth declined by .2%; and business failures eased back too, totaling 20,615 for the year. In 1929, the year of the Crash, the total stood at no more than 22,909, a modest decline from the previous year's 23,842. The worst year...
...soccer team struggled to a disappointing 1-1 draw with Boston, University yesterday in a match in which the quality of play and the booter's intensity moved like a Coney Island roller coaster--up, down, and round and round...
...brief period last week it looked ominously as if the bottom were about to drop out of stock markets around the world. But looming doom proved a sucker's bet. In one of the dizziest roller-coaster rides of recent times, stock markets in Tokyo, London, New York and elsewhere slumped and surged and careered wildly down and up. Yet when the dust settled, share prices in most cases were pretty much back to where they were before the week began, and in New York, they were up substantially. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of Wall Street...
What: A double-racing wooden roller coaster with...
...staggered away from the "Whizzer" and stumbled into the line for "The Demon." This ride seemed a more conventional roller coaster with a hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later...