Word: annually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destination: a clearing in the jungle known only by the code name Chipundo. There, among the camouflaged grass huts of a hastily erected "instant village," a burly, bearded man with skin the color of oiled ebony embraced each new arrival. He was Jonas Savimbi, 44, who had convened the annual congress of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) to prove a point: far from being wiped out, as Savimbi's foes in the Soviet-and Cuban-supported government in Luanda have claimed, UNITA was still carrying on its struggle to drive the Communists...
...College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the S.A.T., has steadfastly tried to discredit cram schools, thus defending the S.A.T.'s objective infallibility. But the coaching schools, which also prepare students for the Law School Admissions Test (L.S.A.T.) and Graduate Record Examinations, have become more than a $10 million annual business. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection decided to investigate them. The immediate target was the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, a chain of 88 schools founded by Stanley Kaplan, 60, the son of a Brooklyn plumbing contractor...
More and more, the Administration seems to be bereft of solutions to inflation, which has been steaming along at a 14% annual rate over the past three months. In economic counseling to the President, Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, 36, has now all but eclipsed not only Kahn but also Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, Chief White House Economist Charles Schultze > and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. The policy seems to be to wait for a recession and hope that it will contain the price explosion...
Europeans, who traditionally seek refuge in gold during days of crisis, are buying enthusiastically because the Continent has been hit by energy-induced inflation. During the first quarter, prices rose at an annual rate of 9% in Switzerland and 9.6% in West Germany, weakening their strong currencies. So far this year, gold has risen even more sharply against the Swiss franc and the German mark than against the dollar...
...their own creative imprint on the cityscape, many of the nation's top architectural firms have joined the movement to preserve and refit. Three years ago, for the first time, the venerable American Institute of Architects gave official recognition to their work by allotting four of its coveted annual Honor Awards to renovation projects, several of them quite modest. This week at its convention in Kansas City, no fewer than six of the 15 A.I.A. awards will go to recycled buildings...