Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gauthier, who like Maximoff is only a freshman, stepped up next in the Crimson hit parade to lead a 1-2 Harvard sweep in the 200-yd. freestyle with a 1:43.87 clocking. Senior sprint stud Malcolm Cooper was second in 1:46 flat...
...those weekends you have nightmares about," Crimson alpine captain Tim Hofer said last night. It began Friday morning when the team's van broke down in the sub-zero weather at its training site in Henniker, N.H., and included two flat tires, a dead battery and lack of lodging. The team arrived by various methods only ten minutes before the start of the slalom at the Dartmouth Skiway...
...nearly disastrous. Productivity is the key both to raising living standards and to controlling inflation. If each worker produces more, then total output will grow rapidly and employers can raise wages without jacking up prices; the rise in output per employee will offset the higher costs. If productivity is flat, almost every dollar of wage gains is translated into price boosts. Over the decades, price rises have closely followed increases in employers' unit labor costs?that is, wage gains minus productivity...
Across the flat Midwest farm lands, electricity and telephone lines snapped like dry spaghetti. Hundreds of cattle froze to death, and dairy farmers were forced to dump oceans of milk they could not get to market. In Lake Michigan, two Coast Guard cutters were trapped by giant ice floes. A 220-mile-long ice jam closed the Missouri River from Atchison, Kans., to Blair, Neb., backing up water and causing flooding in some places...
...prospect alarms many constitutional experts, who fear that a convention could not be limited to a single issue, thereby creating a sort of open season for tampering with the Constitution. In addition, many experts also oppose writing a flat prohibition on deficits into the Constitution. One reason is that it would holster an important weapon in coping with recession. Moreover, many doubt that a no-deficit amendment is practical. Robert Bork, Yale's conservative law professor and former U.S. Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, attempted for several months to draft a constitutional amendment that would limit federal spending...