Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faith in Patience. When Castello Branco and current President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) organized the 1964 military coup that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart, Brazil needed even more than truth. Communists and corruption were everywhere. The cost of living was climbing at the fantastic annual rate of 144% in Goulart's last year, and the Brazilian cruzeiro was barely worth the paper it was printed...
...moderate civil rights leaders think the antiriot bill is likely to deepen pessimism among Negroes. "Too many people," said Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at its annual meeting in Boston last week, "want to make the Negro 'behave' but do not want to give him justice. They think that riot prevention consists of crackdown laws and crackdown police...
When it comes to consumer credit, the rule applied by many a department store, used-car dealer and friendly finance company is caveat emptor. Yet in an economy where outstanding credit totals $92.5 billion-at an annual cost of $12.5 billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced...
...agreeing to exempt smaller transactions under the revolving-charge-account systems used by many department stores. The stores will still be able to state their "service charge" on unpaid balances as 1½% a month-instead of the pause-giving figure of 18% a year. Transactions in which the annual credit cost is less than $10 would be excluded, along with loans exceeding $25,000, and all first mortgages...
...RBls. Split them into two teams, put them in a ballpark that has the shallowest centerfield in the American League, give them wind at their backs, and let them flail away madly for 15 innings. Then try to explain why the final score at last week's annual All-Star game in Anaheim, Calif., was National League 2, American League...