Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paradoxically, all this is happening against a backdrop of a generally healthy U.S. economy and a continuing rise in corporate profits and dividends. So depressed is Wall Street's mood that news reports-of, say, a sharp rise in a company's profits-that would have pushed a stock up sharply a few years ago now cause only a brief flurry of a point or two. On the other hand, bad news is no news at all. Hardly anyone paid attention in October when the Dow Jones transportation average sank to a point that indicated to followers...
After gamely fighting out of their chateau d'if CCNY was finally polished off by the Crimson's rapier-sharp passing in the final five minutes. Bobby Allen hit on a three-point play and dropped a pair from the line to give the hoopsters a 78-68 lead with 4:04 left in the game. Rich Bengel then found himself all alone for a layup that upped the gap to an insurmountable 11 points, which proved the final margin of victory...
...slap at the Soviets. If the Soviets take it and don't react, then it will mean nothing," he said. "But conversely, [Sadat] could provoke the Soviets to respond in a sharp way," Safran added
...face-lifting was long overdue. Once Macy's was on every out-of-towner's must-see list (along with the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building), but it slipped badly in the early 1970s. It was easily overtaken by the glitter and sharp merchandising of trendy Bloomingdale's; Korvettes, Abraham & Straus and Alexander's, which cater to the traditional Macy's budget-type customer, pulled ahead with jazzy promotions. Macy's sales limped along and Wall Street analysts believe the store actually lost money in some years. It did not share...
...site on which to build a new state capital. The last and longest section covers some wintry months spent in Eagle, a tiny settlement on the Yukon River just west of the Canadian border-"a community deeply compressed in its own isolation," McPhee writes, with cabin-fever feuds so sharp that "a cup of borrowed sugar can go off like a grenade...