Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing of the recession to break in his favor. If the economy were really going soft now, he would solve it with some stimulus this fall and the recession might be over by spring. Instead of that, the recession will hit with full force in late fall and winter, and he'll move to stimulate next year...
...graduate business school. Now, at 47, rangy Dave McLaughlin invests a quarter of his time as chairman of his college's board of trustees and the rest as chief executive of Minneapolis' Toro Co., which makes lawnmowers, snowthrowers - and a ton of money. A blizzard winter helped Toro's profits double last year. If a witch doctor could make the snow fall, he would be on McLaughlin's payroll...
Seriously, folks, The 80s was the inspiration of Peter Elbling, 35, a director and actor. Last winter he took the idea to Christopher Cerf, 38, and Tony Hendra, 38, a pair of National Lampoon alumni who helped edit Not the New York Times, and Art Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody...
HARTFORD, CONN. -- President Carter yesterday announced plans for a $2.4 billion program to help low-income families pay rising energy costs and promised residents of the Northeast that "we will have necessary fuel to get us through this winter...
...size of the grants would vary from state to state depending on the severity of winter but would average about $200 for families and $100 for individuals...