Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bar. In addition to Scotch on the rocks or plain cranberry juice, the thirsty can get a few holy words from the proprietor." Then came the television crews. Dare not to be novel in the dog days of summer, the parishioners quickly learned, getting a little testy. By fall the thing had blown over...
Denver Mayor Federico Peña had officially declared it "Orange Monday" in honor of the Denver Broncos' team colors. With ABC Monday Night Football scheduled to show the Broncos taking on the visiting Green Bay Packers and with gorgeous Indian-summer weather prevailing throughout the Rockies, civic boosters hoped the national exposure would lure conventioneers, new business, tourists and-who knows?-maybe even a long-awaited major league baseball franchise for Colorado...
...private forecasters agree that a downturn is not imminent. Said Economist Barry Bosworth of Washington's Brookings Institution: "The private economy is strong enough to ensure that the U.S. will not have a recession soon." Nonetheless, a slowdown in growth is probably inevitable. Many businesses overestimated what their summer sales would be and built up excess inventories. Companies will now moderate their production to get inventories more in line with sales. Data Resources, the Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, predicts that G.N.P growth will slow to a 1% pace by the middle of 1985, but then pick up again...
...least, this election year has been a different story. Despite rallies last week and in the summer, stocks are down for 1984. At its close last week, the Dow Jones industrial average was 32.71 points below its 1258.64 level at the end of 1983. The performance is ironic because Ronald Reagan, Wall Street's favored candidate, has been way ahead of Walter Mondale, despite some recent gains by the Democrat. Wall Streeters say that if Mondale were in front, the market would be doing much worse. Investors are leery of his plans to reduce the federal deficit by raising...
...mother's death in 1954, she abruptly stopped singing and became a practical nurse until forced to retire by hospital administrators who thought she was 70; she was 82. Rediscovered then at a party, she performed to capacity audiences at a New York City cafe until last summer...