Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate of 4 in. an hour, fed by melting mountain snow. At least part of Thistle could be underwater for good. Commented State Geologist Bruce Kaliser, who claimed the mud bath was the largest in the area in 1,000 years: "It's the year of the slide...
...1970s. Oilmen, expecting the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to push prices to $50 or even $75 per bbl., spent billions to find and develop wells and then were startled when consumption dropped and prices fell. OPEC, which had been trying to resist the slide, acknowledged the new era last month by cutting its official price 15%, from $34 to $29 per bbl. Observes T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a 32-year veteran of the industry: "I've never seen a collapse as dramatic as this has been. It's an unbelievable situation...
Freshman Tim McCaffrey made it 4-16:19 into the second quarter, Hawley scored 41 seconds later, and it seemed a Crimson land-slide might develop...
Like the Grenewalds, more and more Americans are using the air waves to stay in touch. Improved technology and falling prices have made such pagers or beepers cheaper and easier to use. In contrast to the unwieldy $340 versions of a decade ago, 1983 models slide into a pocket and cost less than $100. Manufacturers who once concentrated on serving business clients are now rushing to establish a beachhead in the consumer market...
...Stated Chairman Dean Buntrock, 51: "Many of the allegations appear to be patently false and totally without foundation." But he conceded that the charges would have to be fully investigated for the firm's credibility to be restored. By Friday the price of the stock had stopped its slide and recovered a third of the losses...