Word: depress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford has going for him, and he knows it." Ford staffers do not disagree. They are purposely running negative television ads-like the ones that feature fellow Georgians running down Carter's record as Governor-not to convert voters to the President but to undercut his opponent and depress the vote...
...nation seems likely to wind up with an oil-price policy that has some potentially beneficial provisions and some serious flaws. Gradual decontrol is certainly preferable to abrupt decontrol. But the price rollback, while giving some temporary relief to inflation-pressed consumers, probably would boost oil consumption and depress production. And the bill contains no special tax incentives for pumping out hard-to-get oil. In short, Congress has only postponed the tough steps that must eventually be taken to free the nation from its growing dependence on foreign...
Miss Lonelyhearts. An adaptation of Nathaniel West's short novel about a newspaper columnist, a sort of grotesque "Dear Abby," who becomes involved in the lives of his unhappy correspondents. Guaranteed to depress you. At the Loeb Ex, November 20-22, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets available free at the box office the day preceding each performance...
...argue that this part of the deficit is going to crowd out private credit demands is nonsensical. The question really is: Crowd out compared with what? Suppose we had no tax cut and no extra fiscal stimulus. Then a recovery would probably be aborted, and this would really depress private credit demands by causing much greater inventory liquidation, cutbacks...
Henry Ford II estimates that if the tough 1977 rules are not postponed, they will add $750 to the cost of a car and further depress sales. (The EPA estimates the added cost at $250 to $350.) In addition, GM's Murphy contends, "If you set emission standards higher, there's got to be a sacrifice of fuel economy." The EPA disagrees. Astonishingly, a study it released last week argues that there "is no inherent relationship between exhaust-emissions standards and fuel economy." The best guess now is that Congress will push back the 1977 regulations...