Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full year, its profits also jumped 59%, to a record $2.44 billion. Large increases were also reported by other large companies (see box, facing page). The profits amid scarcity, said Exxon Chairman J.K. Jamieson, have reduced the public image of the oil companies "to a particularly low ebb right now." Jamieson even held an unusual press conference to proclaim "We aren't making windfall profits...
...cost of canned goods is all but certain to zoom. Canners started the processing season this summer with inventories at their lowest ebb in 20 years -vegetable items totaled 23 million cases, down from 50 million in 1970. With this year's vegetable-and fruit-canning season almost over, the National Canners Association reports that although there were supply increases, they fell below amounts considered minimal to meet demand. Peaches, apricots, apple products, tomatoes, peas and some varieties of corn will all be short and more expensive...
...youth tide did not ebb without reshaping the landscape. A mere glimpse of the hair and clothing styles of Wall Street commuters is enough to convince anyone that the youth impact of the '60s was at least skin deep. And deeper. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, the draft was abolished, and students were given places of responsibility in college administrations. Age has paid another compliment to youth in taking over some of its protest tactics. People over 65, in particular, are organizing to better their...
HUNTER THOMPSON does not put his finger on a mere pressure point of the American dream. He does more. He plunges directly into its central vein and gauges the intensity of the pulse, a manic ebb and flow of raw human yearnings for wealth. Las Vegas is the ultimate embodiment of this process, stripped of genteel pretensions, and it is toward this mecca of the Horatio Alger dream that Thompson heads. He speeds dope-crazed along the desert in a rented convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast...
...JOHN B. CONNALLY JR., 56, the newest Republican from Texas, benefits from Watergate because he chose a moment when the G.O.P. was at an ebb to switch allegiance. Even deep-dyed Republicans are saying in effect: "He came over not as an opportunist but when we really needed...