Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economist Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota noted: "We seem to have an accident-prone inflation." For example, the extra-cold winter has dulled the sex drive of sows. Because they have not produced as many piglets as usual, the price of pork chops is going up. Though the economy is vulnerable to further shocks of climate, biology or politics, the members of TIME'S bipartisan, multi-opinion board displayed a rare unanimity of views about what lies ahead for the nation...
...fact, says Alan Greenspan, head of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, "Carter has a better chance of bringing in the budget below $30 billion this fiscal year than next." One reason: tax receipts this year will be up because the economy was much stronger than expected this winter and expenditures will be below expectations...
Millions discover the winter counterpart to jogging...
Cross-country skiing, or ski touring, which for years has dawdled in the valleys, a poor cousin to the downhill variety, has suddenly taken off. With more than 3 million devotees, easily double the number of only two years ago, it is the country's fastest-growing winter sport. "It is bigger than the bowling boom of the '50s, the tennis boom of the '60s and the running boom of the '70s," says Chicago's Morrie Mages, owner of the country's largest sporting-goods store, who has seen his sales of cross-country...
...mild winter this year coupled with last summer's extreme heat may have left the stainless steel roof prone to extreme changes in temperature, producing the cracks, Arthur Dickerman, project manager of Barkan Contractors, which built Canaday, said yesterday...