Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford has cut down Jimmy Carter's lead for the presidency. Ford now commands 40% of the vote and Carter 46%, with, 14% undecided. In June, just before the Democratic Convention, the President trailed his opponent 38%-47%. Once the glow from Kansas City wears off, Ford may drop farther behind, but three out of four voters expect the contest to be down to the wire, and a variety of indicators support their viewpoint. Such are the findings of a nationwide telephone survey of 1,544 registered voters, conducted by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White...
Chance for Indecision. Even that drop, however, has so far failed to break a prolonged deadlock between bulls and bears. At last week's close, the Dow was still within the exceptionally narrow range of 954.9 to 1011, in which it has held since February. The stalemate has given the year on Wall Street a very strange pattern: a cyclonic rise in January and February, during which the Dow rose more than 120 points on record trading, followed by six months of generally lackluster volume and back-and-forth price movements that rarely last more than a week...
...holds that if the average is higher on Election Day than on Jan. 1, the party in power will stay in office; if it is lower, the outs win. The rule has held good in 15 of the 18 presidential elections since 1900. It would take a disastrous drop now to push the Dow by Nov. 2 below its start-of-the-year level...
...thing is sure: Bugsy Malone will get the drop on you. No amount of careful description or enthusiastic reassurance can make adequate preparation for it. Doubts will never be completely stilled, but then the movie's fine edge of surprise cannot be dulled either. It is altogether a unique and wholly improbable enterprise...
...every state delegation, though the outlanders' tastes occasionally caught local hostesses unprepared. "I thought we had stocked the bar with everything," said Mrs. Joseph Bruening, who invited 200 Arizonans to a poolside party, "but the first drink request was for Scotch and milk. There wasn't a drop of milk in the house, so we gave her Scotch and half-and-half and hoped she didn't notice...