Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yankee Stadium, only 14,607 fans showed up, Mickey Mantle struck out twice, and the Yankees-minus George Weiss and Casey Stengel-were whitewashed by the Minnesota Twins...
...liquidation, the biggest factor in the G.N.P. slump. In the next quarter, the rate of inventory liquidation is expected to ease to about $2 billion, providing a solid lift for the economy. But that turnaround would not be as great as in 1958, when the inventory rate swung from minus $7 billion in the first quarter to plus $3 billion in the fourth. Nor do economists look for any strong spurt in housing starts, which have helped pave the way for all previous postwar recoveries...
Unlike last year, when the Crimson sextet was minus a few men because of injuries, everybody is in good shape and ready, Weiland noted, adding, 'But if we go into the game too overconfident we're going to get knocked off. We can't fool around...
...prognosis of his Administration, Dwight Eisenhower last week predicted an economic pickup soon. The 214-page report, while stressing that "economic activity continues high," took note of the downturn without referring to it as a recession. It emphasized the economy's progress rather than its halts. Nonetheless, the minus signs loomed large in new economic figures that were not available when the report was prepared. Raymond Saulnier, outgoing chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the report's chief architect, admitted that things may be worse than they seemed when the report was written...
...Angry Silence (Beaver Films; Valiant) at first glance looks like a remake, minus humor, of I'm All Right, Jack, and at second glance like an anti-union tirade. Actually, it is a vigorous attempt to fight the virus of conformity in modern society-an industrial miracle play in which Everyman finds salvation through a grease-smeared redeemer...