Word: tailspins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This season just proved too much for Billy. The Yanks got off to an okay start, but a series of debilitating injuries to the pitchers put the team into another back-biting tailspin. Had the Red Sox not been so outrageously hot up until last week, the Yanks would still be in it; as it is, they are lucky to be only ten games behind (14 a week ago). The difference may well have been Steinbrenner's incomprehensible cheapness, after spending millions to get a championship club, in dealing with Mike Torrez. Steinbrenner would not give Torrez, winner...
...foreign presence. Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch the country's economy into a tailspin. In Hollywood and Hallandale, just south of Fort Lauderdale, 20% of the population is now French speaking; the Canadian flag flies over bars, restaurants and motels, many of which are Canadian owned. Longtime residents gripe that the new arrivals are clannish, refuse to learn English and do not participate...
...York Times-CBS survey released this month, only 46% feel he is performing well. A Harris-ABC poll puts the approval figure at 43%, though it is up from 36% in March. The Iowa Poll, the most respected in the Midwest, indicates that Carter is in a "public opinion tailspin" that has been gaining momentum in recent months. Those giving him a favorable report plummeted from 80% a year ago to 45% this month, a drop that was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his last year in office, during the Watergate scandal...
...captains Russell Long and Jim Hammitt, and the depth provided by other skippers such as Steve Strittmatler, Nick Stone and Andy Efstathiou. Horn notes that the team has survived the loss of last year's co-captains Tom Reps and All-American Terry Neff, without going into a tailspin. Now he says all the Crimson skippers need before they have a truly superlative season is a lot more sailing time...
...other hand, CEA Chairman Schultze, the Administration's most vocal critic of Burns, holds that velocity is declining and that if the Fed does not increase the money supply, interest rates will shoot up and the economy will be in danger of going into a recessionary tailspin...