Word: trough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks in part to less Japanese competition, Detroit's automakers climbed out of the grim trough of recession. They earned profits of $9.8 billion in 1984, vs. a loss of $4.2 billion in 1980. Last year the carmakers' sales rebounded to 7.9 million cars, vs. a paltry 5.7 million in 1982. In his announcement, the President complimented Detroit's automakers on their "improved performance." Allowing the Japanese controls to come off seemed to make no sense to most Detroit auto executives. Said Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "This is a sad day for America--for American workers and American jobs...
...than the successor of Porky's L. Mischief will surely be remembered as another of Hollywood's blitzes on make coital tension. First as in Porky's I and II Mischief plot is the standard "immature boy searching for his first time in the sack with a dream girl." Trough his inevitably gained experience, one learns that looks aren't everything" as characterized by the movie's deepest line." "I was so know trying to fuck her I never got to know her," altered by Jonarthan Bellah (Doug Mckeon). Mischief possesses none of the characteristics that make a movie more...
...campaign, with Mulroney jabbing away effectively on the issue. But speaking from the heart to his own potential constituents in Baie Comeau, Mulroney assured them that if he were elected, they would enjoy "priority treatment," which is to say wink, wink, they would be first into the trough...
...interest groups proliferated, they jostled each other at the federal trough. Blacks, women, the handicapped, the elderly, all demanded more of "their share." The established groups, particularly labor, tried to pull up the social ladder behind them, protecting high wages and benefits. The $12-an-hour white construction worker bitterly resented welfare "handouts" to unmarried black mothers. He feared affirmative-action quotas that threatened his job security. He worried about taxes, crime and mortgage rates. He believed that Government largesse was eroding America's self-reliance, American independence. These were middle-class concerns-Republican concerns...
...trough of the national recession a year ago, state and local governments were all but drowning in a $1.9 billion pool of red ink. But now there is cause for cautious optimism. According to a survey by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, states and localities may finish 1983 with a combined operating surplus of $16.1 billion...