Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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July 20, 1969 doesn't seem like such a long time ago. Most of the problems and personalities of that day have changed, but to those who grew up in the sixties, they were facts of life. The body count from Viet Nam, every night from Huntley and Brinkley, interrupted by cigarette commercials. Ghetto riots in the summer didn't make the news unless they were big ghetto riots (the little ones were expected.) July was too hot for big anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed...
Early on, when Lloyd's underwriters offered only a limited number of policies, competition for them grew rough. Christopher, suspecting that Lloyd's members might be ready to cut off his coverage in favor of another leasing company, arranged for the electronic bugging of a Manhattan meeting between Nottage and representatives of the Chemical Bank. Unluckily for Christopher, the expert he hired to do the job was an FBI informer. Christopher was indicted in 1976 by a federal grand jury in Manhattan and wound up pleading guilty to illegal electronic eavesdropping. He was fined...
...Geneva, Yamani did his best to persuade the cartel to hold the line at $18 per bbl. At one point, the Harvard-educated sheik grew so frustrated with the demands of Iran, Libya and Algeria, which were calling for a base price of at least $25 "to $26 per bbl., that he threatened to walk out of the conference. That led OPEC Chairman Mani Said Utaiba, of the United Arab Emirates, to convene a rump meeting in his private upstairs suite. It was during that gathering, at which Utaiba served dates from his home country and Arab spiced tea, that...
...most convincing evidence that a downturn is coming is that spending by consumers, which has been the chief engine of the nation's 50-month-old recovery, is slowing substantially. The nation's output of goods and services grew by a paltry .8% in the first quarter. For April and May, industrial production actually declined, though only slightly, for the first time since January 1978. The standard forecast now is for a shallow slump lasting no more than two to three quarters...
Remember The Group - Mary McCarthy's novel about eight college girls and how they grew? Change Vassar to Radcliffe, the '30s to the '50s, take away the wry tone, and you have Rona Jaffe's readable reworking, Class Reunion. The four women in her sorority are archetypes...