Word: depressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention guidelines, wage and price controls, jawboning-no, no, no, they don't want that." The President himself notes that the Federal Reserve's sporadic efforts to check inflation by restricting the growth of money supply push up interest rates -and rising interest rates have helped to depress the stock market. Last week the White House issued a highly unusual "notice to the press" warning the Federal Reserve not to push interest rates higher...
Part of the responsibility for the growing wheat surplus rests on the farmers themselves. Sensing last fall that an expanding "carryover" of unsold wheat would depress prices, they paradoxically overplanted. Reason: federal price supports are based on the percentage of acreage seeded, and farmers wanted to get as much of their land covered by the supports as possible. In addition, record-breaking wheat crops were harvested worldwide last year, cutting into American farmers' export markets. The U.S. consumes only about two-fifths of its wheat crop, relying on foreign buyers to gobble up the rest. Another bounteous global grain...
Sitting around in Tommy's, Cafe Algiers and the Pewter Pot soon began to depress Beth and she started to join extra-curricular activities. All of them. She pretended she was only looking for friends, not a lover and sometimes she meant it. But beneath her resolve to be self-directed and independent she always had an eye peeled for an eligible male. As she confided in a friend, "I'm not exactly looking for one but if a nice one jumped in my lap I wouldn't exactly push...
...Penalizing owners of gas-guzzling cars with heavy taxes may depress the auto industry and increase unemployment. General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy calls the plan "one of the most simplistic, irresponsible and shortsighted ideas ever conceived." Said Douglas Fraser, a shoo-in as the next president of the United Auto Workers: "Auto workers should not accept a disproportionate share of the burden...
Although Mobutu should have realized that he was making Zaïre more vulnerable than ever to world market fluctuations by concentrating so heavily on copper, he was partly a victim of plain bad luck. He could hardly have foreseen the soaring oil prices that helped depress the economies of his copper-buying customers and multiplied Zaïre's import bills. But there is more to the Zaïre story than that. Mobutu, who styles himself le Guide (the guide), also sank borrowed money-to be repaid out of copper revenues he did not get-into showy...