Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally plunged through the box for an official start, the bird veers sideways into the crowd sitting behind the platform on folding chairs. Eleven more are launched with equally poor results before a hen named Stephanie soars 60 ft., to the cheers of the congregation. For most of the next two hours, birds with names like Chick en Little, Chickenmauga, Opeck, Granny Kluk and Herb W. Cluckerman drop stonelike or circle back over the crowd. Apparently unruffled by the Shake 'N Bake threat, Otis, when his turn arrives, drops out and down. Kamikaze literally lays an egg en route...
...million more people alive than there were in 1970. By the year 2000 more than 6 billion people will inhabit the planet, twice as many as in 1960. Worse yet, the population of the poorer, developing nations will account for 90% of the increase, multiplying problems of illiteracy, unemployment, poor health and scarcity of food...
...Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
...import bill to boggling heights-$40 billion last year, perhaps $50 billion this year. The result was a three-year string of stinging trade deficits, including a record $28.5 billion in 1978. The devastating drop in the value of the dollar overseas, which largely reflected the poor trade situation, helped fan domestic inflation by making imports more expensive...
...thrifts are nervous because for the first time since the early 1970s, when interest rates surged on the eve of the 1973-74 recession, they have been losing deposits in a big way. April, for instance, is normally a poor month for the savings banks, since their customers commonly make large withdrawals to pay taxes. But April 1979 was by far the cruelest ever: nationwide, savings and loan institutions lost $1.5 billion in deposits (vs. an increase of $400 million last year). They gained back $1.2 billion in May, but that was considerably below last year's more normal...