Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years ... are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration of a very grave character ... Aside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned, the consequences to the economy of the United States should be apparent to all. It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able...
...used to be head of the Department of Transportation. The new people were reaping a lot of benefits from the Ford Administration initiatives, lamented Jerry. Take the wiretapping bill, said Ford, turning to former Attorney General Ed Levi. Bill Simon, who used to run Treasury, summed up his grave doubts about the economy under what he felt was the vacillating hand of Jimmy Carter. After more talk and some laughs. Ford said that as for himself, "I am going to be heard from...
...Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." At the San Antonio cemetery where her husband is also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate, 6 ft. by 8 ft. by 17 ft., was lowered into the ground by a crane. To deter any grave robbers cum 1964 Ferrari buffs, the crate was covered with concrete. And so another gas guzzler bites the dust...
...Kids for the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. Massive youth unemployment-and the threat of social and political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit to "exchange experience and ideas" on youth joblessness, a formal recognition that the issue has got too big for any one nation to handle...
...national income, output, sales and employment, shows that the summit seven as a group have largely regained their pre-recession heights of economic activity (see chart following page). But the progress is erratic. Except for the U.S., only Italy has surpassed its preslump industrial output-and Italy has other grave problems...