Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young, spirited Brown contingent never regained their composure. Radcliffe steadily increased its margin as its passes became sharper and their discipline more evident. The Radcliffe bulge reached 20 with 1:30 left...
...more than arms' length from the South African crisis, Pogrund feels he has gathered an even sharper understanding of the widening and, he thinks, probably irreparable gash in the fabric of apartheid society...
...annual rate of $116.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 1974 to $111.8 billion at the end of last year, and recovered in the first quarter of 1976 only to $114.7 billion. Measured in dollars of the same purchasing power as in early 1974, the drop has been much sharper, the recovery so far has been tiny, and the level is still far below the 1974 peak...
...even sharper ups and downs at Trans World Airlines. With huge infusions of cash, he built it from a small southwestern carrier into a globe girdler. It was also his fief. He chose planes, tinkered with design improvements and harassed TWA's presidents with interminable post-midnight calls. On transcontinental flights, four to six seats were always blocked off for him even though he almost never used them. After Hughes' failure to raise the money for TWA's jet fleet, he lost control of the airline, and the new management hit him with an antitrust suit. Hughes...
...there's a surplus of oil, then why hasn't the price of gasoline gone down?" Mobil's complaint was, in part, that the price has gone down in recent months by about 20 a gallon. But other Mobil points about inaccurate or loaded reporting were sharper. Among them...