Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With tax-cut and spending stimuli, the economy is expected to grow in 1977 at a moderate rate of just under 5%, moving up to a fairly brisk 6% or so in the latter part of the year. At that pace, unemployment would drop from the current 8.1% to just under 7% at year's end. That would still be far above Carter's ultimate goal?he hopes to cut unemployment to 6½% in 1977 and to 4½% by 1980. But the economy would certainly be moving fairly well and starting to generate the extra tax revenues that Carter says...
...produced by Du Pont-continue strong. Du Pont still is suffering because of downturns in clothing sales and the housing slump. Chairman Irving Shapiro has predicted lower fourth-quarter earnings for the chemical giant. The industry, he says, has 30% more capacity than in 1973. Sales of aluminum are brisk, but a Reynolds official says that costs still are not being covered...
...next day's hearing before Judge Bullock was brisk. Again the manacled prisoner was asked whether he had anything to say. Gilmore rose shakily to his feet and made one request: "I understand, your honor, they are planning to seat me in a chair with a hood over my head. I don't want that. I don't want a hood, and I want to be standing...
...Brisk Business. "It took us a while to get known," he says. But business is now brisk; whereas Rare Earth had to sell 20 properties in 1975 to gross $700,000, just three of the ten properties it has sold this year brought in the same amount. Still, profit margins are thin because overhead runs about $5,000 a month. That includes base salaries for Van Haefton and his wife (six other employees work on straight commission), heavy advertising expenses and a lot of travel...
Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear for 50 years or more. Says Bean's bemused merchandising manager, Fred McCabe: "Fashion has just come round to us. We certainly haven't gone fashionable ourselves...