Word: annually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration. The man behind the founding of the cooperative was former Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker, who feuded with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and its headquarters are in California's department of justice. There L.E.I.U. keeps computerized card files on 4,000 people. For $350 in annual fees, a police department can ask for information on any of the 4,000; for an extra $300, it can get copies of all the cards...
...dress up as cowboys, Indians and Civil War soldiers and live the life of the Old West as it really was. Casual spectators were strictly forbidden. Said Hans ("Old Joe") Jäkel, 55, a retired Cologne machinist who has been Grand Marshal of the Bund's annual three-day councils for the past 20 years: "This is no performance. We are serious here...
...development. But those glory decades have ended, at least temporarily. Government policies now work to discourage saving, retard investment and divert into immediate consumption the money that industry needs to spend on new factories, new equipment and new skills. Partly because of this, over the past ten years, annual productivity growth has slowed to about half the average 3% increase of the 1960s. This has been a major cause of slow economic expansion, the debilitated dollar and double-digit inflation...
...German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese or 1.3 Germans can do as well. Last year the Japanese had a productivity increase of 8%; the U.S. gain was only .3%. In this year's first quarter, U.S. productivity actually fell at an annual rate...
Shortly after the American Institute of Architects gathered in Kansas City last week for its annual convention, dozens of members slipped off to study the city's architectural showcase: the R. Crosby Kemper Jr. Memorial Arena, the 17,000-seat sports and concert coliseum that was the site of the 1976 Republican Convention. Designed by Helmut Jahn, of the Chicago firm of C.F. Murphy Associates, the sleek, futuristic building had several distinctive structural features. One was the sweep of interior space, 324 ft. long, without a single interior support. Another was the three huge exterior trusses, or interlocking networks...