Word: downward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ECONOMIC CRUNCH of the seventies--producing many college trained cab drivers and dishwashers-- has not encouraged educated workers and students to organize against capital, nor has their education given them more humanistic values than their less-educated blue collar counterparts. The threat of further downward mobility has thrown students back to a petit bourgeois outlook. At more exclusive colleges like Harvard, the "new mood on campus" stands as a polite metaphor for a new isolation and an increased competition for the few types of work that are still independent...
...their greasy, oily hands on the money--accountants these days are camouflage experts. More importantly, they see the disastrous effects decontrol would have on the economy. A hundred billion dollars of spending power wiped out with one veto. A net withdrawal of spending power, even with tax rebates. A downward pull on an economy which has just bottomed out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, and is bouncing upward like a soggy ball-bearing. Charles Schults of the Brookings Institution, supported by Congressional Budget Office and Joint Economic Committee studies, says that with decontrol...
...schoolmarm's strictures against am t and "it's me." Connoisseurs savor genuine follies like those of the new priests of thanatology, who describe dying as terminal living," or the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare who explained a $61.7 million cut in social services as "advance downward adjustments." But whatever mirth there may be in these and other buffooneries, euphemisms, pomposities tautologies evasions and rococo lies, they are also signals of a new brainlessness in public language that coincides with a frightening ineptitude for reading and writing among the young...
...forecasts. According to early estimates, the harvest of '75 was to be the bin-buster of all time, considerably exceeding even the record 1973 crop. Owing to a corn-damaging drought in Iowa and some flooding in Minnesota, Department of Agriculture experts last week revised their predictions slightly downward. The wheat harvest is now expected to be 2% less, at 2.14 billion bu.; and corn will come in 3% lower at 5.85 billion...
...barley; 2) one of the driest months of July in 30 years afflicted the corn crop in Iowa, which normally produces one-fifth of the U.S. total, thus casting doubt on the previous forecasts; 3) the Agriculture Department's shaky estimates of Soviet grain production were revised downward from 210 million to 185 million tons because of continued droughts in the Soviet Union plus better intelligence...