Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadliest shock to the economy would be a return of sustained double-digit inflation. That likelihood is not easy to gauge. The October leap in wholesale prices seems to have been partly a statistical fluke, caused by difficulty in calculating seasonal adjustments. M. Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of the New York economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, suggests that the real annual rate of increase may be only about half the 23.9% reported. Still, the October jump was disquieting: it involved not only metals and cars but also farm products, lumber, textiles, clothing, furniture and household durables...
These banks are big enough to surmount the shock of default, but some banks outside the city-most of them small-could be in bad trouble. A federal survey found that 53 of the nation's 4,700 national banks hold New York City bonds equal to 40% or more of their capital. Nine of them would probably become insolvent and have to merge with other banks, and 44 could get by with long-term loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the Federal Reserve System. Other Government studies found that 62 of the 9,964 state-chartered...
...dining room. Lunch was a pleasant affair, filled with interesting conversation; when it was over the host invited his guest to view the city from his roof. There sat a mortar, pointed in the general direction of the battle lines of the day. As the Frenchman watched in shock, the merchant dropped three quick rounds down the tube. What was he shooting at? "Ah, those Moslems," said the man, with a casual wave of his hand...
Frenzy, 4, 7 p.m.; and The Little Shock of Horrors, 6:10, 9:50 p.m. tonight and Friday only. Starting Saturday, The Bed Setting Room, 4, 7:20, 10:30 p.m.; and The Knack...
...scene whose characteristic pop music is softer, easier, pitched to life on the beaches and in the canyons, hardly in tune with his sort of dead-end carnival. Springsteen's four-day stand at a Sunset Strip theater called the Roxy was a massive dose of culture shock that booted everyone back to the roots, shook 'em up good and got 'em all on their feet dancing...