Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year we survived the drought by learning not to waste a drop of water. Now it's time for a new California drought: a scarcity of the tax money to be drawn from irate homeowners. Let the bureaucrats cut back on their bloated budgets and practice fiscal conservation. Tax money can be just as precious as water when the sources...
...resurrected Kalki's appearance on the tube features the dance of eternity, the ritual that signals the end of the world. It gets a Nielsen rating of 49. It is also the very last picture show. As Kalki concludes his dance, the earth's 4 billion inhabitants drop dead simultaneously. The feat has been accomplished by having Teddy Ottinger unwittingly rain a pattern of 70 million plague-infested paper lotuses throughout the world while flying the cult's private 707 on what she thought was a promotion tour. Only five people are left: Kalki/Kelly, his wife Lakshmi...
Lipsky attributed the drop to the tightening job market for people with doctorates. "Large numbers of black undergraduates who might have considered doctoral programs in the Arts and Sciences are now going to professional schools," she added...
...spent an estimated $19.5 billion more than it received in all "current account" transactions (trade in goods and services, tourist outlays, weapons exports) with foreigners, an abrupt turnaround from two years earlier, when the U.S. racked up a towering $11.6 billion surplus, caused in part by a drop in imports during the recession. The massive swing back into deficit, which began early in 1976 and has accelerated ever since, has added to a pile of dollars owned outside the U.S. that is estimated to total anywhere from $300 billion to $400 billion...
...DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women will have to start our great vacations with one of your competitors." In a nonplused reply, Lundstrom asserted that "we never considered that such a headline ... would have been taken out of context." Nonetheless, his consciousness presumably raised, he agreed to withdraw...