Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plasterers and plumbers who are milling around the Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon. In fact, they rather like the idea, and don't hesitate to tell you why. It's a class war--the working man against the intellectual elite. Hatch's record as a state rep has been weak and they claim he has voted against labor at least 20 times. Ed King--he's a working class boy, and promises that he'll cut property taxes and bring jobs to Massachusetts. King talks a hard line and people believe him. He never shows up on Thursday...
...helpful in fostering community and economic development, whatever that means. He promises to work with schoolchildren, instilling a political awareness in the state's future voters. He differs sharply with Connolly on the issue of public financing of state elections, advocating little change for the state's existing weak financial supports...
...initial reaction to the speech, and the plan, was far from encouraging. Corporate money managers, bankers and speculators, apparently believing that Stage II is too weak and will not work, sent the dollar plunging. The greenback fell to its lowest exchange rate since World War II against the yen, the deutsche mark, the guilder, the Belgian franc and the Danish and Norwegian crowns. The price of gold, which moves inversely to the dollar, reached a new peak of $233.70 an ounce. "We had not expected much," explained one Zurich foreign-exchange dealer about Carter's plan, "but neither...
...first half of the contest looked like a rerun of most of the booters' season, outplaying a weak Tufts team yet failing to score. Harvard controlled the ball and completed its passes but could not seem to move it up the field effectively or get off any shots...
Nervousness about the weak dollar and inflation conspired to bring a startling break in stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average last week tumbled more than 59 points, to 838, its worst one-week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...