Word: annually
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...just about any other occasion as well, Cleveland's American Greetings Corp. is the fastest-growing company in the U.S.'s $800 million-a-year greeting-card industry. The trade's five biggest companies-Hallmark, American Greetings, Gibson, Norcross and Rust Craft-have a steady annual increase in sales. American Greetings alone is growing almost 14% a year, this year will have record sales of $94 million...
Most of the smoke is coming from filters. With only a small part of the market a decade ago, filters have been unintentionally blessed by the health-hazard debate, now account for 65% of the industry's $7 billion annual sales. Challenging the leader, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has the bestselling plain and menthol filters (Winston and Salem), other manufacturers are aiming for the top with new tips...
...Russian banks in the West all rack up tidy annual profits, and they may soon do even better. The Communist bloc, which once operated under a primitive barter system with the West in which each nation accumulated Western currencies on its own, now has a joint International Bank for Economic Cooperation. The bank operates as a kind of Communist central bank, switches currencies among member countries in order to improve trade. The bank's delegates will soon arrive in Zurich to confer with the Wozchod bank with a view to stimulating such trade even more...
False Chins. Haunted by memories of the pre-1950 hordes that stripped much of Australia of its vegetation and caused sheepherders and farmers an annual loss of half a billion dollars, Australian scientists are now desperately attempting to forestall another population explosion by rabbits-a pair of which, under moderate conditions, can be responsible for 9,000,000 descendants in three years...
...Hara, 61, is that rarity in contemporary U.S. letters, a writer who has never run dry. Even more unusual, he continues a large annual output of short stories, a field in which diminishing returns set in rapidly. Like Saul Bellow, O'Hara has a playwright inside him clamoring to get out, and this is reflected in his stories, which are often told almost entirely in dialogue. As an old pro, O'Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting...