Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheers she led against the Pittsburgh Triangles in the opening match provoked venerable player-captain Ken Rosewall into storming over to the Freedoms' bench to lecture her against abusing his players. It waff almost as good as professional wrestling without the wooden acting. Rosewall was genuinely mad; the cool man had been razzed by a woman...
...them, while patrolwomen more modestly concluded that under most circumstances they were as good as but no better than men. Yet under stress there may well have been a female advantage. Noted one policewoman wryly: "A lot of times a female officer is not only able to be cool, calm and persuasive with the disorderly; she can also help to do the same with her male partner...
...foster a new "conservation ethic," Sawhill said. The FEA is now advocating ways to reduce energy consumption during the summer. It is urging homeowners to run their air conditioners only on "really hot days," and then only enough to cool dwellings to 78°. To keep indoors tolerable, Americans should shade sunny rooms and wait until the cool hours of early morning or late evening to switch on appliances that throw offbeat (dishwashers, clothes dryers). In addition, the FEA advises, house holders should use the next few months to improve their homes' insulation. Al though all this will have...
...critical time. Housing starts have dropped from an annual rate of 2.5 million at the start of last year to 1.5 million now. The potentially most damaging threat to the industry came recently from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. He bluntly declared that the Reserve was determined to cool inflation and vowed that the money supply would not be expanded to accommodate an "explosion" of business-loan demand, even if his policy meant that interest rates would skyrocket. Since then, rates have continued to climb to record levels; last week major banks lifted their prime rate on business loans...
Brokers were promptly deluged by such a wave of sell orders that governors of the New York Stock Exchange decided that they could not let the stock trade at all on Tuesday. "We delayed the opening to let the psychology cool down," commented a party to the decision. By noon Wednesday enough buy orders had been rounded up to bring off a trade of 120,000 shares-on which the price dropped to 48, down an amazing 27⅛ points, or 36% of the stock's Monday value. Even though Wagner, Stott & Co., specialists in the stock, bought...