Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend, in short, was both Bougas and bogus...
...came placekicker Dave Cody. His wobbly kick looked like it might just dribble over the crossbar; but as the Harvard fans groaned, the officials signaled the kick wide right and short...
...lens never was found; but the Big Green soon was brought to its knees again when Ellen Jakovic crossed a short ball from the right side to Ferrante, who booted it into...
...reported foreign reaction to the U.S. monetary moves, studied economics at Harvard (Class of '56) under John Kenneth Galbraith. "After breaking his leg in a skiing accident," says Ungeheuer, "Galbraith regaled his students with an unsentimental view of human fallibility, reminding them that man's greed and short memory make monetary history eminently repeatable." Such lessons, notes Ungeheuer, "blessed us with that indispensable tool of economic journalism: magnificent hindsight." Last year, however, when reporting on the coming gold rush for TIME, Ungeheuer demonstrated the much rarer gift of economic foresight, predicting in January 1978 that gold would break...
...during that meeting, reports TIME Washington Correspondent William Blaylock, that Volcker decided nothing short of decisive action would do: "Upon Volcker's return to Washington, following a brief appearance at an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, he immediately instructed his staff to draw up a list of options open to the Fed. The short-term goal would be to prevent a further dollar slide abroad, but long term the objective would be to puncture the inflation psychology of the nation as a whole. As many as 20 staffers were ultimately involved in the brain-storming sessions, and economists from...