Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Americans returning to the wild as never before, backpacking their way home to nature, the main trail up Mount Whitney has become about as lonely as Times Square on New Year's Eve. Last summer some 15,000 people made the trek, most camping overnight along the way. Verdant stands of timber were denuded by ax-happy hikers hunting for firewood, and trails became littered with trash...
...reminder in these somber times that cheers and manufactured banners and distance and speed mean nothing unless there's a human dimension beneath and beyond the spectacle. And that is the continuing shadow across the restless trail of Richard Nixon...
...training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities I and weakness. Abolitionists like Frederick Law Olmsted and Cassius Marcellus Clay and slavery critics like Fanny Kemble were the main source...
...rates is about reaching its apogee. Yet how soon, how far, and even if they will fall again are subjects of sharp dispute. Predictions of where the prime rate will be by year's end range all the way from 6% to 12%. Best guess: rates will gradually trail down to about 8% by year...
When the Cardinals dropped Crone, he hit the Canadian trail to toss a few aerials in Winnipeg. After three weeks of the Northern circuit, it was back to semi-pro ball in New England...