Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1954, still in her teens, Jill Kinmont had won two important ski competitions and dreamed of qualifying for the 1956 Olympics. In 1955 she skied off the side of a mountain during the Snow Cup Race. She nearly died, and survival was hardly a mercy. Her neck was broken...
The looming capital shortage poses a long-range threat to the survival of the nation's economic system. More immediately, it raises doubts about the economy's ability to recover with vigor from the postwar era's most severe recession and push unemployment down to about 5...
Thus Rees moved swiftly to head off a series of price boosts announced by the highly concentrated aluminum industry. Alcoa, for example, proposed an average 2.3% Increase on 60% of its shipments-although its mills are operating at only 74% of capacity and inventories of unsold metal are large. Aluminum...
The traumatic events of recent years-Watergate, inflation, recession, the energy crisis and the collapse in Viet Nam-have all overshadowed a less dramatic but potentially durable shift in American life. It is in the way in which the U.S. governs itself. Two years ago, Time Inc. devoted part of...
Tax-rebate checks of $100 to $200 each are now on their way to or already in the hands of nearly 40 million people (out of a total of 70 million who will eventually receive them), making more urgent the biggest economic question of the moment: What will consumers do...