Word: skidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to pull the snow-tire market out of its skid, all four major tire manufacturers (Goodyear, B.F. Goodrich, Uniroyal and Firestone) are now promoting new nonstudded winter radial tires. They are made of soft, "sticky" chemical compounds that remain pliable at low temperatures and, according to manufacturers, provide superior traction on ice-and snow-covered roads. In general, they cost slightly more (between $60 and $100 each) than hard-compound radials, but they may not last as long...
Hoffa was always worried about the bottom line. His society taught him to believe in himself and his ambition. Like Nixon, that other great self-made man, Hoffa writes of "toughing out" his prison sentence. Nixon ended up on political skid-row, though, a pathetic outcast who sleeps fourteen hours a day. To beat Jimmy, perhaps the mob had to kill him. The difference between the two men isn't purely personal either; Nixon quit because his base of support collapsed, while Hoffa kept on because the truckers never loved him so much as when he left the joint...
...because the image of unlimited wealth and opportunity in the U.S. has yet to be dispelled. Others wonder more about sheer size--size of buildings, of cities, of airports or of cars. Still others, perhaps with a more defined political awareness, have questions about poverty, unemployment and the skid-row syndrome. Few, if any, indicate signs of envy, but there wasn't one who wasn't curious...
...result tends to please almost everybody. Says Charles Gill, a planning official in San Francisco: "Tenants end up with larger spaces, bigger windows, higher ceilings and generally a more pleasant environment." The city benefits through increased property taxes; for example, since 1970, when Seattle developers started fixing up the Skid Road area of late 19th century buildings, property values in the 74-acre district have risen 450%. There is another fringe benefit: old buildings, unlike today's unvaried glass and steel boxes, are visual reminders of a city's individuality. "They are friendly structures," says Michael Leventhal...
...nation might muddle through one more time: Britain is in the position of the debtor whose creditors can ill afford to force him under because they would lose too much in the process. For example, if oil-rich Arabs started withdrawing their huge deposits from London, the pound would skid much further, thus diminishing the value of the Arabs' sterling holdings before they could convert them to some other currency. But the dependence on foreign money is not only humiliating for the nation that was once the world's greatest financial power, it is risky in the extreme...