Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stocks have been long overdue for a recovery. From almost the moment that Jimmy Carter moved into the White House, investors began moving out of the market. As the slide has continued, Wall Street has begun to look more and more like a bargain basement just waiting for shoppers. Last week they came pouring in, driven by random pieces of upbeat economic news (a slowdown in the growth of the money supply, a hefty increase in industrial output during March, a firming dollar overseas) as well as a juicy-though unfounded-rumor that Exxon Corp. had struck...
...occurred to ABC that perhaps people watch 60 Minutes because it is not slick, filled with frequent humor, and does not slide quickly over items...
Winding up a three-day visit to Harvard. Napolitano stressed the importance of constructive reforms to solve Italy's complex problems. "The goals of socialist democracy remain our ideal," he said, "but we must first deal with the current crisis to prevent a political and social slide backwards...
Jimmy Carter's memos sometimes have the margins crowded with his slide-rule jottings and formulas of physical phenomena. He has pondered what his responsibilities might be in case communication with beings beyond our galaxy can be established. He will soon launch a deep study of American innovation. Question: Can this nation continue to think and invent its way to preeminence? We have slipped in the past few years, but not yet fatally...
...while later, Astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President's big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens. Carter asked most of the questions, his eyes bright with the sense of adventure, urging that any new missions to Mars seek out mountains and valleys and old volcanoes instead of staying on the more level or gently rolling surfaces...