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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed they have. Since those desert meditations four years ago, the Eagles have become the top U.S. rock band. Their LP, One of These Nights, has been at the top of Billboard's chart for four weeks; they have two gold and two platinum albums; some 850,000 people will pay $5 million to see them on their current 59-city tour...
Compared with a year ago, to be sure, profits still look bad. Citibank calculates that second-quarter earnings of the 1,331 firms in its survey fell 17% below a year earlier (see chart); manufacturers were down 22%. Scruggs predicts that for all of 1975, corporate earnings will sink 20% to 25% under 1974-the most severe year-to-year drop since...
...during the same quarter in 1974; yet production has shown only a minuscule rise. Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the drain on total proven reserves caused by pumping from old fields (see chart...
...West Germany before year's end, a view shared by Bundesbank Vice President Otmar Emminger. Of the world's major economies, said the OECD, all but Britain and Italy will enjoy real growth in the second half, a trend that will accelerate sharply in 1976 (see chart). To make sure it happens, Schmidt and Giscard agreed a fortnight ago on a joint $5.5 billion pump-priming effort ($2 billion to be spent in Germany, $3.5 billion in France). Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira has also promised further steps to stimulate demand. Yet as welcome as that news...
...council of 200 delegates from all across Italy had been called to chart new political directions in the wake of disastrous setbacks for the Christian Democrats in the recent regional elections (TIME, June 30). As the delegates arrived at party headquarters in EUR, a suburb of Rome, many of them had obviously already picked a primary target for the "renewal." They blamed Christian Democratic losses and sizable Communist Party gains directly on Fanfani, who is the unquestioned leader of the factionalized party's right wing...