Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average of $136.87 last March to $252.52 this month, an increase of 85%. Says Housewife Tena Jackson: "My electric bill was $267 in February-$98 more over last year for 1,500 kilowatts less." The consumers contend that Con Ed has a moral obligation to adjust its rates downward, and they are refusing to pay their bills until it does so. But Con Ed maintains that the rate hikes are necessary and justified-and in fact is asking the state public service commission to grant it an additional 17.5% increase...
Despite a national downward trend in graduate school applications to large, private universities, the Business School and the School of Design, as well as schools at MIT, have experienced an increase in applications this year...
Bruin boosters roared their pleasure as their hero gathered in lob passes, then levitated his lanky, 6 ft. 11 in. frame and dropped the ball delicately downward for a basket. At the opposite end of the court, Walton planted himself in front of Oregon State shooters like a giant redwood tree, branches stretching toward the ceiling. Near the end of the game, when Oregon State surged to within three points of U.C.L.A., Walton responded with a torrent of shots and rebounds that kept the Bruins in the lead. For his efforts that evening early this month: 31 points, 19 rebounds...
...tarred with the same vague but pervasive public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still, as successors of Founder John D. Rockefeller, they must contend with memories of the evils...
...weekend marked a low point in the continuing downward spiral of Cornell's basketball program. Second-year coach Tony Coma, whose claim to fame lay in coaching Earl "The Pearl" Monroe at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, announced his resignation for "personal reasons" Thursday, leaving Ithaca with a 7-38 won-lost record. Assistant Tom Allen stepped in as interim coach against the Crimson...