Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power. What shook the Communists was not just the unexpected victory by the center-right coalition led by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing but also the weakness of their own performance. The party's share of the total vote (20.6%) slumped to a ten-year low, and that became even worse when gauged against the small increase gained by the Socialists, who emerged with 22.6% of the vote, thus confirming their position as the dominant party on the left...
There were other obstacles besides. Despite the quality of the specialized programs offered in the 14 magnet schools (which included a business and management center, a creative arts academy and a health professions center), white enrollment was low from the start−and it has dwindled further over the past two years. Perhaps the most significant problem was the flight of whites to the suburbs: in 1970 the Dallas school district was 58% white, 34% black and 8% Mexican American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with...
...surge has been fueled by the accelerated foreign buying. One New York banker remarks: "Overseas buying early last week was a wave not to be believed." The main interest is coming from West Germany, where institutions and private investors have been seeking a double killing on low Wall Street prices and the cheap U.S. dollar. Merrill Lynch reports doing good business for private Arab investors from Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Britain's Prudential Assurance Co. has been a buyer in the U.S. market...
...sense of the interplay of light and material had already produced the best new museum building in America−the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, opened in 1972. Kahn accepted the job and designed a four-story box, dedicated to light: a building without gimmicks or stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived to see it finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious exactness of taste was much in keeping with Mellon's general style of philanthropy...
...order to continue to aid the improvement of U.S. cities, Proxmire suggested that the government devote more of its funds to aid low-income city residents. He said that in 1975 more federal funds were provided for high income areas of U.S. cities than low income areas--and even after members of Congress called attention to this fact, spending to high income areas still increased...