Word: annually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a man in his prime, American productivity had looked so robust, so deceptively healthy. From the end of World War II through the 1960s, it increased comfortably at an annual average of just over 3%. The first symptom of trouble struck in the 1970s, when gains started averaging half of that. They tumbled to 1.6% in 1977 and .4% in 1978. Now that most important measure of an economy's efficiency is showing the most alarming decline. Output per hour worked in private business dropped at an annual rate of 2.8% in this year's first quarter...
...festival, of course, is also a feast, as in food. Says the slow-talking voice over the loudspeaker at the Ninth Annual Antique Powerland Farm Fair in Brooks, Ore. (pop. 400): "Those of you with a rumble in your belly come have some barbecued chicken and corn on the cob." Many of the 2,000 or so who were gawking at the steam-engined tractors and thrashers did just that. Gilroy, Calif., which claims the title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about...
...dwelling with statistics, programs, philosophy. There are few zestful folks up there, and almost nobody who can get things done. Carter has only a handful of personal friends in the city, little interest in others beyond their official functions. The story of his presidency so far reads like an annual report...
...hush falls over the crowd--your janitor, jingling a keyring in his annual show of authority, emerges from the leafy green of Harvard yard and mounts the steps. You scan the competition, looking for an angle that will bring you through the door before your still-anonymous cohabitants...
...Christian Fellowship: fundamentalists at Harvard. HRCF meets every Friday night, as well as offering small Bible study groups and an annual retreat in October...