Word: depression
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...football season, the nation's premier telephone quarterback, Richard Nixon, signed legislation banning television blackouts of home games sold out 72 hours in advance of the kickoff. That will enable tens of thousands of local fans to watch their favorite teams play, though owners fear that it might depress ticket sales. Houston got ready for this week's show-biz spectacular in the Astrodome−the tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. In Pittsburgh, 51,860 people, some after enduring a twelve-mile-long traffic jam, toured the first jumbo jet to land...
...greatest obstacle to increasing output is not technical but psychological: the farmer's traditional fear that if he grows everything he can, he will only produce a glut that will depress prices. That attitude may seem totally irrational, given the almost hysterical state of current markets, but in fact farmers have some reason for regarding the present deluge of world demand as an abnormality that will soon pass. It has been caused by an extraordinary combination of temporary factors: bad weather round the world; crop failures in Africa, Asia and the Soviet Union; a decline in the catch...
...more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...
...Georges Mathé, a leading cancer researcher at the Paul Brousse Hospital at Villejuif, near Paris, has been using BCG since 1964. He administers it as part of a double-barreled approach to treating patients with acute lymphoid leukemia, a cancer of the blood-forming tissues that tends to further depress and obliterate the patient's already weakened immune responses. Mathé begins with chemotherapy, using cell-destroying drugs that kill rapidly proliferating cells (and thus destroy cancer cells more quickly than normal ones) to reduce the size of cancers from billions of cells to 100,000 or so. Then he uses...
...combination can be catastrophic. Methaqualone and alcohol are synergistic: one multiplies the effects of the other. Taken together, they can depress the respiratory center and stop breathing; they may also slow the reflexes in the back of the throat, so that if a user vomits (which may happen after a large dose of methaqualone), he can choke...