Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since, Wichita and aviation have had a reputation of running on a steep boom-and-bust cycle. Explains Beech Aircraft's Bill Robinson: "When the rest of the economy coughed, general aviation got the first cold...
...Rooster Cogburn. Kate's acceptance of the hardships of making a brawling western seemed to reinvigorate Duke. Playing the same hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal who won him an Academy Award in True Grit, Wayne predictably chases an outlaw gang through the steep trails and canyons of the high desert. Joining in the good old pursuit is Kate as Spinster Eula Goodnight, out to avenge her murdered clergyman father. If the plot does not sound stirringly original, it at least gave the two aging stars a good workout...
...roaming Wild Card is but one of the grace notes of mass transit in Pittsburgh these days. Painted in pastels or ablaze with psychedelic designs, trolleys and buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
From July through September, real output of goods and services fell at an annual rate of 2.9%. That was the third quarterly decline in a row -the longest downhill run since the recession of 1960-61-and the drop was almost twice as steep as in the April-June period. Some reasons: the deepening depression in housing, the impact of high costs for imported oil and a sudden downturn in inventory-building by businessmen who evidently fear softening sales. The rate of inflation, after slowing a bit in the second quarter, took a disturbing leap...
...wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...