Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, they claimed that Rowe killed the woman. Rowe has admitted being present at the murder, but insists that he only pretended to shoot a pistol at her, while Wil kins fired the fatal shot. But Wilkins and Thomas waited for twelve years before giving their account to police, and some officers believe they are only trying to get even with Rowe for testifying against them at their trial...
Pihl said he did not know why Expository Writing -- ten years ago at the bottom of the list in popularity -- now attracts such high enrollment. Many high-school graduates planning to matriculate at Harvard next year take Expos S-17, but high-school students account for only a little more than half of Expos enrollment, Pihl said...
...present to the Chancellor. The biggest source of the U.S. trade deficit is not oil but industrial imports from West Germany and Japan (see chart). Department of Commerce figures released last week showed that machinery and manufactured goods, including everything from ships and machine tools to bicycles and radios, account for twice as much of the deficit as oil does. At the same time, oil imports have so far dropped by 9.6% this year...
...that he stepped into is as tough as any in Washington. The Federal Reserve is a kind of bankers' bank: it regulates commercial banks that account for more than 70% of all bank deposits, holds the funds that they are required to keep on reserve, clears checks for them. But its most important functions are to determine the supply of money and the level of interest rates?and no questions touch off more disagreement in American policymaking. If the Federal Reserve is not condemned by the AFL-CIO's George Meany for causing unemployment by being too stingy...
...budget," says News Director Norman Fein of New York's WNBC, which spends $13.5 million a year on news coverage. Yet disgruntled off-camera journalists at Los Angeles' KNBC figure that the salaries of the "talent," as on-camera personalities are known in the trade, account for nearly one-quarter of the station's $9.5 million news budget...