Word: gloomiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Press Institute (IPI), the 23-year-old organization founded in Switzerland to protect beleaguered newsmen round the world, has issued its gloomiest annual report. IPI finds the world press in 1974 "under open attack on all fronts...
...that era may well be ending. From his studies of weather history, British Climatologist Hubert H. Lamb concludes that climate runs in roughly 200-year-long cycles, and that the earth is now entering one of its chilly phases. Perhaps the gloomiest of the weather prophets, Bryson speculates that the earth may be reverting to a frigid interlude comparable to what some scientists call the "little ice age" that cooled Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries. During those years Greenland's once lush fields vanished, England's productive vineyards withered, and agricultural disasters like Ireland...
Several important indicators of the U.S. economy flashed some of their gloomiest signals ever last week. Wholesale prices leaped a frightening 3.9% in August alone, the second biggest one-month rise in 28 years. On top of a 3.7% surge in July, it was a sure omen of more explosive inflation in consumer prices. The news sent the stock market reeling to its nadir since November 1962. Meanwhile, economic activity continues to decline. Production in the nation's factories and mines dropped .4% in August; industrial production is now almost 2% lower than last October, when the Arab...
...less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks, the grimiest subways, inviting attack and expertly dispatching his assailants with his peacemaker...
...wish with all my country soul that the city dude who wrote in "The Gloomiest Outlook Yet" [May 27] "The one bright spot in the inflation picture is that wholesale farm had prices in April fell make an average of 3% . . ." had to try to make a living for just one year on a family-sized farm...