Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national stature remains much diminished. A Gallup poll showed him running behind Maine's Edmund Muskie and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey against Richard Nixon. The traditional Kennedy constituency-made up of the young, women, blacks-were especially disillusioned. His once unassailable power in Massachusetts has continued to slide, though Bay State Republicans probably have no hope of defeating him next year. And it remains possible that the reopening of the Kopechne case will damage him further...
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...people can't relate to each other only in generalized and public ways. Augie must ask Louie for love. Stephanie must ask Lance. Neither is allowed to merely speak the words. The Daytop group won't let them retreat and slide through the final Marathon encounter. They must scream and agonize until feeling comes through protective bravado...
Characters in boxing fiction rarely graduate beyond caricature. The manager is an insensitive swine; for a month's supply of subway tokens he would send a fighter up against a mountain slide. The fighter, swimming up from economic backwaters, is a supreme dolt and an exploited object of surface pity. Then comes the trainer, faithful as a mutt. Behind them all sits the omnipotent syndicate, whose generals eat pheasant under glass and meticulously avoid the sauce stains...
...less rapidly than those of small mutual funds, whose young managers hopped from fad to fad, making quick gains on chicken franchises or computer-leasing companies. These smaller investment funds, which rose rapidly in the highly speculative markets of 1967 and 1968, have fallen sharply in the recent market slide. This year, U.S. Trust has done much better than most of the newer, smaller investment institutions. It has-as it usually does-outperformed the market averages by about...