Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The stock-market slides rumbled through Tokyo. The vision of thousands of auto workers out of money for Christmas landed with a thump on Ford's palace doorstep. The rebellious spirit in Congress shattered one day's sightseeing with the overriding of two vetoes. Senate Majority Leader Mike...
It was arguably the toughest week in 40 years for U.S. corporations, their employees and their shareholders. The auto industry, reeling from the gathering disaster in new-car sales, was laying off workers by the tens of thousands; at least 14 auto plants will be closed and more than 200...
Brezhnev wants to test Ford's negotiating skills at first hand, as well as learn how badly Ford has been weakened by the lingering effects of Watergate, the recession and the Republican disaster at the polls this month. One effect of those crises has been to nudge detente off...
Class barriers are tumbling at the Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask...
The runaway price of staples, a source of anguish to housewives and politicians, has spelled disaster to a considerably less vocal segment of U.S. society: the Southern moonshiner. All the essential ingredients of corn likker have skyrocketed: sugar (up 300% in a year), grain and yeast, as well as the...