Word: losing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers had its own glum set of figures on the Caracas spinoff: consumer prices will climb by 1% more than they would otherwise have during 1980, and some 250,000 more workers will lose jobs. U.S. economic output will be shaved by some $17 billion, while $10 billion will be added to the nation's balance of payments deficit...
Their growth prospects evaporated largely because many industries became increasingly outmoded and continued to lose their edge in global competition. America was living off its accumulated capital stock, a consequence of its people's unwillingness or inability to save and invest. While the U.S. spent scarcely 10% of its national income on new factories, mines, tools and transportation systems, its allies and competitors the West Germans and the Japanese were investing 15% and 16.2%, respectively, of their incomes in such capital goods. One result: U.S. productivity, which had risen an average 3% a year in the 1960s, declined...
...said a high official, but "you wind up rejecting most of them because they could endanger the hostages or lead to the taking of more hostages." West German officials warned that if the crisis turned into an economic war that involved other Middle East oil producers, the U.S. might lose its present worldwide support...
...inverted body through a double "German" giant swing, arching his back into another handstand, twirling, spinning. Finally, tucking his knees into his chest, Thomas whipped into his dismount: a double somersault with a half-twist on each revolution. If he faltered on landing, took one steadying step, he would lose. He landed solidly and the gold medal was his. The judges' 9.90 merely confirmed the crowd's shout of delight: America's male gymnasts had arrived...
...midst of all these pyrotechnics, it was easy enough to lose sight of the fact that The Who stood in defiance of the Woodstock generation. "You've got to remember that Tommy was antidrug in 1969," Daltrey recalls. Townshend, who had been through his own phase with drugs, was not only using Tommy as a mirror for Baba's antidrug strictures but was also putting refractions of Baba's teachings into a rock context. Tommy ended by pulling the rug out from under false idols, directing the search for salvation inward and out toward the audience. What Tommy sang...