Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arthur was going to make it - he would be reappointed next day by Jimmy Carter, whispered the first caller. Ring, ring. Another voice. Sorry, it was all off. The President was dropping Burns as chairman. The negative word from the White House would soon be public. Jangle, jangle. New rumor running through the city. In just a few minutes Carter would speak in the Mayflower Hotel to the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, and drop his bombshell: Burns would have another four-year term as Fed chairman. Carter indeed met with the council, but he never...
...stocks so depressed? Analysts asked for reasons can come up with an endless list of quickie "explanations" for any particular day's drop: a jump in wholesale prices, a rise in the trade deficit, a threat of higher interest rates that would pull money from stocks into bonds. Last week, when the Dow fell 8 points, the favored reason was worry over a continuing drop in the value of the dollar on foreign money markets. All these factors do indeed have some influence, as does the perception by investors that the Carter Administration does not have a grip...
...CALL Agnes Varda's latest film, One Sings, The Other Doesn't, feminist art is to insult both feminism and art. Such claims will undoubtedly be made, however, for Varda sets her story of the long-term friendship of two women against the back-drop of the feminist movement of the '60s, presumably illustrating Simone deBeauvoir's famous line, "women are made, not born." But Varda's feminism concerns itself only with those things that have to do specifically with the female body. For her, feminism equals the Pill and easily-had abortions. Varda fails to realize that women...
Medical School officials yesterday reported an apparent drop in the number of black applicants to the school this year...
Tentative observations of Med School admissions figures indicate "there's been a big drop in applications from blacks," Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of student affairs and minority recruitment officer at the Med School, said yesterday...