Word: annually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, Mexican governments have tacitly encouraged the annual flight of at least 500,000 illegal immigrants...
...fact, the economy was somewhat stronger in August and September than it was in the early summer. With gasoline readily available again, buyers have returned to shopping centers and auto showrooms. Reflecting this consumer boomlet, the Commerce Department guesstimates that the economy may have actually grown at an annual rate of 1% in the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, which begins this week, the brief spending splurge is expected to fade, and the pace of business will slow sharply...
...even the populist Carter Administration has backed Volcker's high-interest policy. Yet banks have had plenty of money to lend anyway-perhaps too much. In the past month, the money supply has grown at an annual rate of 11.5%. Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank, argues that this "hemorrhaging" must be stanched if inflation is ever to be curbed...
...this week's annual meeting in Belgrade of the finance ministers and central bankers of the 138-country International Monetary Fund, another step may be taken to dethrone the dollar as the world's chief reserve currency, and replace it with a collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there...
...study also finds that the dam's projected output of 23 megawatts of electricity will be offset by operational costs and rack up an annual $750,000 deficit. And the TVA, which lobbied vehemently for the dam throughout the 1960s and '70s, now admits that the project will not even provide the power for which it was built. But as bulldozers returned to the dam site for a last month of construction before the reservoir is filled, practicality seemed to have lost a last round to politics...