Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this summer, after Wall Street's long slide clipped $77 billion off the value of U.S. stocks, many people presumed that a recession loomed dead ahead, and more than a few whispered Depression. Now that no such calamity has occurred, the public is coming around to accept what the savvy economists were saying all along: the recovery is not so bouncy as it should be and will likely start to "top out" sooner than originally hoped. But it still has some steam...
...hustlers pledge that they would lead a "decent life," and then sent them off to rehabilitation schools. But puritanism had a crippling effect on the South Korean economy. It stifled trade, and created an enormous new unemployment problem. Facing facts. Park's junta is wearily letting the nation slide back to its old ways...
...Aristocrat chain's $20 million, 75O-room McCormick Inn, which will have three swimming pools, six restaurants, a toboggan slide and a putting green...
Perhaps the most perfect captive audience in all America is the one that steps into an elevator, watches the door slide shut, and then listens to a piped-in ver sion of Surrey with the Fringe...
...grounds that the I.T.C. smacks too much of an international cartel. Last month Washington rebuffed an I.T.C. attempt to negotiate price controls on sales from the U.S. surplus stockpile. And it took buying by the I.T.C. itself, increasing its reserves by about 600 tons, to stop the price slide at $1.03. The London Economist complained: "The I.T.C. got a better response from Russia in the crisis...