Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter how much economists slide-rule the economy, many imponderables remain. One is the U.S. corporation and how it will respond to another swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase...
...cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board of directors in London started the company on a long slide toward worthlessness. Frewen, forbidden as manager to sell his shares, came out with nothing but debts...
...tear open the side of the album cover that the record does not slide into, in a frenzy of wondrous hope, only to find that it was empty...
...teletype to signal that he is ready to continue. His mechanical teacher then fires a question at him and waits for a response. The correct answer typed back will elicit a "Good" or "That's fine" followed by more questions or new material on the slide screen. If the student's answer is incorrect he'll get a "No" with an explanation and perhaps a mild chiding, "What are you going to do when we get to the hard questions...
Sometimes a question refers to a graph or a table, for example, "According to table 3..." The student can bring table 3 to the slide screen by typing out "Table...