Word: downward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
Worse, there are signs that the downward spiral is reinforcing itself. As fewer sailings are scheduled, shippers turn to other means-truck or rail-to move cargoes, and sailings decline even more. What happened? Like the rest of the economy, Great Lakes shipping is suffering from inflation, especially in the cost of fuel to power ships. Bad labor relations also have plagued Chicago docks. "The I.L.A.," fumes Bechtold, "will not work in the rain. If they look at a puddle and see a bubble, they will walk off the ship...
...most demographers contend that even if such an increase occurred, it would be temporary. "Any upturn in the birth rate would be just another fluctuation around the major continuing downward trend," says Philip Hauser, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. "It would fend off zero population growth a little longer, not forever...
...mortality rates down. Thus for a while the population increases. Eventually, however, modernization causes the birth rate to drift downward. Children are not needed to till the land. Parents need not produce a dozen children in the hope that a few will survive to maturity. Modernization also prolongs schooling and postpones the time at which women marry and begin having families, thus shortening their child-bearing years. By this pattern, according to the much discussed theory of "demographic transition," societies in the process of becoming industrialized will move from high birth and death rates to a new equilibrium...
Shrinking Income. In part because of the drought, Agriculture Department forecasts for the corn crop have been revised downward, from 6.7 billion bu. in May to 5.9 billion bu. two weeks ago. Since then, conditions have grown worse, and by last week the National Corn Growers Association was predicting that the corn harvest would drop "significantly below" 5.5 billion bu. v. 5.6 billion last year...