Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valley's blanket of snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement, he and his audience were "sensitized to criticisms of each other...
...dawned cold and cloudy in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk-a morning of gloom that matched the city's mood. Gdansk (pop. 370,000) had seethed for days with resentment at the Polish government's sudden announcement of a dramatic rise in food prices, the more infuriating since it came just before Christmas. Now, at the Lenin Shipyards, grumbling workers spontaneously protested the hike by refusing to work. Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed...
Through the early part of the year, inflation psychology kept its grip on the minds of investors and businessmen. Then, in the space of a month, two events turned the mood from hope to gloom and brought the nation closer to financial panic than at any time since the 1930s...
...Matter of Mood. Even if more money pours forth from Congress or the Federal Reserve, the big question is how much jittery consumers will spend. "The consumer is the key to 1971," says Harvard's Otto Eckstein, reflecting the overall view of TIME'S Board of Economists. "If retailing does not do very well next year, nothing else will...
...Center, reported that the consumer's confidence is low and still falling, largely because he is worried about his job security and about a prolonged recession. In marked contrast to earlier years, says Katona, today's consumers spend money freely only when they are in the right mood to do so, rather than because they urgently need goods and services. Katona believes that buying habits are more affected than they once were by such problems as racial conflicts, student riots, crime, even pollution...