Word: sags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, this trend sharply reversed itself; and the number of men and women competing for one of the 8800 places available in the nation's approximately 90 accredited medical schools is expected to rise indefinitely, despite a slight sag in the applicant curve this year...
Nurse Patterson's idea, to tighten and tone up physiognomies suffering from middle-age sag, is presented in Facial Isometrics. The $1 paperback is illustrated by the faces of a male and a female model who both look as if unspeakable tortures were being performed on their lower extremities. No wonder. The author's instructions urge practitioners...
When the Atlantic magazine celebrated its centennial, Editor Edward Augustus Weeks ascribed its longevity, in part, to periodic "refreshments in leadership." Said he: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger editor was brought in." That was seven years ago, and in the interval, circulation did sag a bit; it is down 16,000 from a 1962 high of 278,000. Last week Editor Weeks, 66, announced that the Atlantic is once more bringing in a younger man: Robert J. Manning, 44, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a onetime senior editor for TIME...
Despite such troubles, no run on the pound has developed. For one thing, Britain's trade gap has been partly cushioned by a buildup of sterling balances held in London by other sterling area countries. For another, the Bank of England, which has let the sterling rate sag without much intervention, has resources at its call that are formidable enough to discourage currency speculators: $2.5 billion of Britain's own reserves, several hundred million dollars available from Continental banks, a $500 million swap arrangement with the U.S. and $1 billion in stand-by credits from the IMF. Besides...
...monopoly is a monopoly to the Federal Trade Commission, be it in oil, steel-or bubble gum. So in 1959 the FTC began unwrapping the sticky case of Brooklyn's Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., tycoon of the baseball trading cards that now sag the pockets of every acquisitive American boy (and tomboy) between the ages of five and 15. Last week FTC Examiner Herman Tocker capped 4,000 pages of testimony with a 113-page opinion finding Topps so tops that its competitors are overcome with "a sense of futility...