Word: depress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortages of oil, steel, paper and other products. For that, corporations need not the short-term funds they can borrow at the bank prime but the long-term money raised by selling new issues of bonds or stock. But as towering interest rates make bond issues costly, they also depress the stock market by luring money away into such high-yielding investments as bank certificates of deposit. The Dow Jones industrial average last week fell below 800 for the first time in five months and closed at 802.17, down 24% from its January 1973 peak...
Already battered by soaring inflation and a declining economy, the nation's housing industry recently has been jolted by another blow: skyscraping interest rates that are drying up mortgage money and threaten to depress construction even further. A continuing slide in housing would seriously diminish chances for an economic upturn later this year, and last week the Administration attempted a rescue. President Nixon announced a series of steps that would pump $10.3 billion in cash and credits into the sagging industry...
...Kael still felt somehow guilty about moviegoing: "And the theaters frequented by true moviegoers--those perennial displaced persons in each city, the loners and the losers--depress us," she wrote. The true moviegoers were never displaced. Some people spent seemingly all their time at the Brattle or the Welles (the addition of the bar made it possible to live inside the Brattle building for "an indefinite period of time," albeit on a liquid diet, a Crimson critic noted in 1957) but the people lining up for the first Bergman and Bogart festivals led real lives that the movies helped enrich...
archy and mehitabel, an adaptation of don marquis's story of a cat and a cockroach who couldn't depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...
...barn door after the horse walked out whistling Yankee-Doodle," says Donald Albanito, a dean at Illinois' Bradley University, who was sequestered in the 1967 trial of Murderer Richard Speck. Moreover, Albanito wonders "whether being immersed every day in questions of alleged political intrigues may not so depress the jurors that they would be willing to believe anything evil about everyone involved. I think people get a better view of the world sitting at home than they do locked up with eleven strangers they can quickly learn to dislike...