Word: worsening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supply might fuel inflation (TIME, June 6). His view was disputed last week by Budget Director Bert Lance, who complained that the Fed's stinginess has prompted major banks to raise lending rates for their best customers to 6.75%, up from 6.25%. Lance believes that the increases could worsen inflation and weaken the recovery by pricing loans out of many businessmen's reach...
...part HRBSA saw ridicule as missing the mark in these cases and serving instead to keep both the stereotypes alive and to reinforce the prejudice of those already so inclined. Furthermore, the argument continued, such humor was clearly perceived as offensive by other students and this served only to worsen rather than improve race relations in the College. "One black Harvard undergraduate," to quote the HRBSA, "reports his younger sister became deeply disturbed upon viewing the Lampoon issue that pictured a black shining the shoes of John Harvard. Another young man states that at his prep school, black students were...
...isolated and effective moments, and it begins with Roosevelt on the campaign trail in 1912. The absence of random, stream-of-consciousness reminiscence as attempts to carry out present action in a one-character play seem almost inherently doomed to failure. Some "corny" lighting and musical effects only worsen the general lag in the first part...
...internal affairs." The Soviet leaders were furious that a U.S. President had made direct contact with their most eloquent critic; Sakharov himself further provoked their ire by boldly appearing at the U.S. embassy. Washington, in any case, offered no apologies. Questioned as to whether Carter's letter might worsen the prospects of an arms agreement with Moscow, Press Secretary Jody Powell replied: "Loving one another is not usually the reason for reaching an agreement on nuclear weapons." Translation: if a SALT agreement is reached, it will be out of mutual self-interest...
...School. A well-to-do white woman in Atlanta voiced one fear: "I thought Roots was awful. The blacks were just getting settled down, and this will make them angry again." African History Professor John Henrik Clarke of New York's Hunter College was also concerned that Roots would worsen race relations in the short...