Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud new owners know a good thing when they see it, and the reasons for their rush to buy are abundantly clear. To start with, U.S. properties are going for unprecedentedly low prices because of the fall of the dollar. The U.S. currency has plunged some 40% in value during the past two years against such major foreign currencies as the Japanese yen, the West German mark and the British pound. The result is that while prices of real estate and commercial properties may seem high to most Americans, everything with a dollar-denominated price tag looks like a tremendous...
LaVergne (pop. 5,500) is a decidedly rawboned blue-collar town rather than a quaint Tennessee tourist attraction. Dotted with car washes and low-rise factories, it has a work force that exceeds its population. Mayor Vester Waldron describes the place as a "bedroom community without the bedrooms...
...pair spent much of the 1970s painstakingly deciphering how the body regulates cholesterol levels. Just as oil and water cannot mix without a detergent, cholesterol cannot enter the bloodstream unless it is ferried within a complex of molecules called low-density lipoprotein, or LDL. The Texas researchers found that the LDL ferries travel to docks called LDL receptors. More important, they learned that low cholesterol levels in the liver trigger the production of more receptors, which pull LDL out of the blood. But if the liver does not make enough receptors, the LDL levels in the blood will rise...
...reason for the storm warnings is the U.A.W.'s main demand: job security. The autoworkers (average hourly wage: $13.50) are aware that low-cost foreign imports and Japanese-owned U.S. assembly plants make impossible any significant pay hikes by American carmakers. Instead, the union is focusing on the Big Three's shrinking share of the $200 billion U.S. auto market (currently about 70%) and the growing use of foreign suppliers to cut costs. The companies are trying to save money by trimming their domestic labor force, and the U.A.W. has lost more than 400,000 members since 1979. The union...
...culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate but never lustful. Radio programmers grumbled at Epic's choice of a low-profile make-out tune for the album's first single. None of this got in the way of the song, however: it is now No. 2 on the Billboard chart...