Word: trough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want him to be President any more than did Jane Appleton Pierce. It took three days and 49 ballots, and they ended with a Northerner who by some bizarre logic found that the Constitution allowed Southern states to practice "involuntary servitude." Pierce's presidency went downhill from that trough...
...firing consumer demand without simultaneously increasing investment and supply have become about as useful as Gerald Ford WIN buttons. Says Feldstein: "It is a much more complex world than Keynes or anyone else admits, and it is constantly changing. We know enough to move the economy out of a trough but not to control the business cycle...
...over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular to the ground, with the left wing facing down and the right wing facing up." As the stricken plane kept descending, the wing slashed a trough through the field, like a farmer driving a plow. Then the craft disintegrated...
...Transport and General Workers' Union, said that "working with the Tories would be like running a cross-country race barefoot." Sidney Weighell, head of the National Union of Railwaymen, warned that if the Tories win, "I'll tell the lads to stick their noses in the trough...
...Minuteman co-captain Joel Mascolo sprung loose on a trough pass from Tasso Koutsoukos. Crimson goalie Ed Weinfurter had no chance as Mascolo lofted the ball over...