Word: tapered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip was probably both valuable and encouraging, although, with the defection of traditional rivals like North Carolina and Duke, the opposition was somewhat less than formidable. Most of the teams the varsity faced, according to Barnaby, have one or two very good men, and then "taper off very rapidly...
...Government economist predicted that defense orders will taper off after their recent spurt. Viewing the expected softening in housing and Pentagon procurement, he said: "We may be entering a period of somewhat more sober views of our economy, maybe a feeling of some disappointment. This will not be because our economy is declining. It will be, if it develops, because our economy is not expanding as rapidly as some of this recent exhilaration has suggested it would do. The fault will not lie with our economy but with our views...
...Without Taper. In London, Arnold Downham, 47, a clergyman's son, who was sentenced to nine years' preventive detention for stealing candlesticks, asked that the court take into consideration 82 previous offenses-all involving theft of candlesticks...
...model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...
...edged down (though still above that of a year ago), and the Securities and Exchange Commission revised its estimates of capital expenditures for new plant and equipment. Last December SEC estimated that plant expansion, roaring along at a rate of $37.5 billion in 1957's final quarter, would taper off to $35.5 billion in first-quarter 1958 as many industries approached their expansion goals. Now it forecast a first-quarter rate down to $34 billion. Second-quarter estimate: down another $1.5 billion to $32.5 billion, with some pessimists even predicting a further drop to $30 billion during the rest...