Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work and low pay make freelancing a dull...
...Steel did have one justification for its original price boost: its steelmaking operations lost $45 million last year, and companywide profits hit a 30-year low of $138 million. The company has announced that its first quarter was "unprofitable." If U.S. Steel is indeed forced to back down now, it or some other steelmaker might well try to post further price increases in the summer or fall. The Administration's reaction could be most picturesque...
...from January, when it had dropped 1.9%. The U.S. trade deficit in February was a startling $4.5 billion, the worst ever in one month. At home the Carter Administration's economists fear that unemployment in the next month or two may rise a bit from the 40-month low of 6.1% recorded in February. That figure had declined largely because unusually few people were looking for jobs, possibly because cold and buzzards kept many at home. Spring sunshine might well prompt more people to seek jobs...
...spigots of a miniature brewery that looms like some Rube Goldberg creation in their Cruess Hall lab. After breaking down 20 commercial beers chemically, the students then create their own original product. Fruits of this term's efforts: a barley wine, a dark German-type beer and a low-carbohydrate model. But both state laws and college custom decree that all potions be discarded after taste tests. "Sentence one, day one: there will be no abuses," says Microbiologist Michael Lewis, a ruddy-faced Welshman who has taught the course since...
Maria Shriver has stumped for Uncle Ted Kennedy and Father Sargent Shriver, but these days she is wooing viewers, not voters. Maria, 22, is the assistant producer for a feature segment of the nightly news show on Philadelphia's KYW-TV. "I've tried to keep a low profile. I wanted to be accepted by my colleagues, to show them I could in fact work," says Maria, who graduated last spring from Washington's Georgetown University. She sees TV as a way of bringing social problems, like those in Appalachia and Watts, to public attention...