Word: taper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blocks deep in the rebel zone, squeezing Caamaño's remaining men into an area barely one mile square. The U.S. troops now stood on the last hill before the ocean, looking down into the shattered rebel stronghold. After two days, the shooting gradually began to taper off. Four U.S. paratroopers were dead, another 39 wounded, along with five Brazilians...
...users continue to fear a strike-or fear that a steel price increase will follow any final settlement-they will keep stockpiling, thus postponing any sharp cutbacks in steel buying and production at least until September. If they are betting on a strike-free settlement, their steel buying may taper off soon...
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hancock Center will taper to less than half-size at the top, stand on splayed steel legs, and jut out from Chicago's skyline like an enormous, glass-enclosed oil derrick. But far more revolutionary than its façade will be its double-duty interior plan. From the 43rd floor down, it is an ordinary office building, complete with seven floors of ramp-access parking. But from the 44th floor up, it turns into an apartment house with its own indoor swimming pool, enclosed shopping promenade and a topfloor restaurant...
Next stop for the swimmers is the Olympic trials in Queens, N.Y., later this month. After last week's A.A.U. spectacular, some coaches might be expected to taper off for fear of overtraining. Not Santa Clara's George Haines. "We didn't even attempt to reach our peak," he said. "Our boys and girls will be better for the Olympic trials, and better still for the Olympic games." So back to work it was for his young charges, swatting up and down the pool, practicing twice...
...generation ago, when it was really avantgarde, Frank Lloyd Wright built the famous Johnson home office in Racine-a windowless, block-long building, framed on the outside by 43 miles of glass tubing; on the inside columns taper from the ceiling like giant golf tees. Wright's aim was to create "as inspiring a place to work in as any cathedral ever was to worship in." He might have had something there. The paternalistic, nonunion company has never suffered a strike, never laid off a worker. Even during the Depression it kept everybody working, though some men did nothing...