Word: annually
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...gloomy days of January, time seems to drag. According to the Einstein theory of relativity, it actually does-in a minute amount that means little to anyone except a scientist. During its annual elliptical trip through space, the earth reaches its maximum speed each January, when it makes its closest approach to the sun. According to Einstein, the earth's increased velocity, along with its passage through a more intense part of the sun's gravitational field, causes terrestrial time to slow down in relation to time outside the solar system...
...import boom is the result of a three-year-old U.S. Canadian trade agreement that, by eliminating all tariffs on cars shipped across the border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...
...differences are considerable. A vice-presidential-level production manager at a consumer-products company with annual sales of $20 million stands to earn from $17,000 to $25,000 a year in Italy, $15,000 to $25,000 in France, not to mention such perquisites as a company car. The Briton in the same job can expect to pull down only half as much. The Briton does get more perks, including an entertainment allowance, housing assistance, a car, sometimes even a company endowment to help foot public-school bills...
...from $500,000 to $10 million. Along the way, they have spread a string of nine motor inns and hotels through five New England states, grown from a mom-and-sons outfit to a company employing nearly 1,000 people. Next year they expect to reach $12 million in annual sales and expand their chain to some 2,000 rooms, thus surpassing ITT-owned Sheraton Hotel Corp. as New England's biggest innkeeper...
...into the American Kardex Co., which marketed a filing cabinet he had invented, then in 1925 merged with his father's company, and in 1927 with the Remington Typewriter Co. The final merger, with the Sperry Corp. in 1955, resulted in Sperry Rand, a megafirm with annual sales of more than $1 billion...