Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once in Oshkosh, the builder-flyers demonstrated their airs above ground: one man performed slow aerobatics in his Starduster while listening to Strauss waltzes over his on-board earphones; another, goggled and scarfed like the Red Baron himself, eased his bulbous-nosed Der Jager into the friendly skies. There were also rides in a Ford Tri-Motor to be had for a mere $10 and the Red Devil Acrobatic Biplane Squad to watch as it performed an amazing array of intricate patterns and loops and dives...
...flame sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat: "Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong," also get a resonance from war, in this case some slow newsreel footage of a U.S. warplane being wheeled toward the flight line in Viet...
...market's jitters could point to some cloudy economic news. The index of leading indicators, a widely watched barometer of future trends in the economy, dipped down slightly in June, casting some doubt on the durability of the present brisk expansion. Investors have also been puzzled by the slow progress of the Carter tax and energy programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus trigger a rise in interest...
...rising profits were caused mainly by higher sales, typically up 12% or more. Because operating expenses remained roughly the same as last year, when sales were slow, much of the increase in turnover spilled into profits. Among the 19 large oil companies, only two-Exxon and Occidental-showed slight second-quarter decreases. All the rest showed gains. The best performer by far was Amerada Hess, a big independent, whose second-quarter earnings rose 77% over the same period last year, to $51.9 million. Other outstanding performances: Atlantic Richfield (up 41%, to $191.2 million), Getty (up 21%, to $75.8 million), Union...
...Crown races alone: $462,380), there are thousands of also-rans and tens of thousands of never-rans. As a rule, only 5% of the more than 30,000 thoroughbreds foaled each year will ever earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high in the sky, the tax shelters are very down to earth, so the wealthy gather every July in Keeneland and Lexington for the Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton Select Summer Yearling...