Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steer wrestler and calf roper. Unlike the ornery, untamed cowboys of rodeo lore, he does not brawl his way from one prairie town to the next. His rodeo skills were honed not on a hardscrabble ranch but on a college campus. Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money. So far this year he has already earned more than $50,000, which makes him the biggest winner in the sport. Last week he added another...
Denying one's origins is a hard thing to do unless you especially despise your parents or hometown. I never had to contend with ill-feelings toward either one, so Step 3 happened relatively effortlessly. But it's not all that simple. Since stereotyping is rampant at Harvard, people tend to deny parts of themselves that might be associated with some innocuous stereotype. For example, though I knew nothing about prep schools when I got to Harvard, I soon realized that they are the source of endless snide remarks. I met preppies who were truly embarrassed about their background...
Musical talent abounds in the class of '78. Over half the class plays some instrument with the most popular form of expression (not surprisingly) being guitar, piano and of course, listening to stereo. Stereo fanatics run rampant here. Cambridge is an audiophile's paradise. About a dozen stores around the square deal stereo components. The Coop has one of the largest rock, jazz, folk and classical record stocks in Boston. If you're not tuned in before you get here, you probably will be in a short time...
Persistent Problems. But the relief was tempered by a realization that the transfer of power by itself would do little to solve the economy's persistent problems of rampant inflation, sky-high interest rates and declining output. Both sides of the mood were successively illustrated on Wall Street, where the Nixon years have been mostly bearish; though the Dow Jones industrial average hit its alltime high of 1052 in January 1973, at the beginning of last week it stood 180 points below its level on Nixon's Inauguration Day in 1969. In the first three days of last...
...still another clear bid for conservative support, President Nixon last week took to nationwide television to defend his Administration's economic policies. The message was that the White House has no intention of taking any important new action despite rampant inflation and declining production. Nixon told a warmly sympathetic gathering of four California businessmen's groups in Los Angeles that the Administration would continue on its present course of "steadiness" and "would respect the basic laws of the marketplace." He again rejected any return to wage-price guide lines or controls and said that the battle against inflation...