Word: falling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although final figures are not yet available, the number of first-time voters in Cambridge this fall will be unusually high, a development that may aid progressive candidates...
...students have traditionally stayed away from city contests. "They'll all register, but when it comes time to actually vote they just don't have the interest." Walter Sullivan, a conservative councilor with the city's largest electoral base, said earlier this fall...
...step it took last week. In addition, there was no watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission in 1929 (it was set up in 1934). Today the SEC closely polices financial markets to stop inside dealing and fraudulent company reports, which were rampant in the '20s. While a stock market fall is always possible, it is less likely now to ripple through the economy...
...tension increased. At one booth, a cheer went up as a stock that had been doing poorly all morning started to rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza on a pile of papers. "Dammit!" he shouted. "The bottom's falling out of the market, and you're stuffing your face with mozzarella...
Bergland, the stoic Norwegian, even gets a little poetic when he contemplates the fall drama. "American gold," he calls the soybeans, which sell for $6.57 per bu. and which we export at the rate of 1 billion bu. a year. "A storybook," the Secretary says of this. The Soviet leaders study it line by line...