Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total national home-heating bill could rise to $ 19 billion by the time March goes -or does not go-out like a lamb. In January, consumer prices generally surged 10% on an annual basis, the sharpest spurt in 18 months; some fuel prices rose even more (see chart). Those figures were collected before the worst of the cold weather and do not reflect the full inflation in heating bills...
...multinational oil firms meekly surrendered. Blair makes the much-disputed assertion that the companies could have employed their own control over marketing, transportation and refining to try to break the price. Instead, he says, the oil giants raised their own prices to even higher levels. In chart after chart in his book, he cites the sudden surge in the Seven Sisters' profits. Blair also charges that the big companies actually helped prop up the OPEC price by cutting back on production at times, most notably in the fall of 1975, when an oil glut was causing price weakness...
...first group consists of roughly 20 courses considered by almost three fourths of the student and faculty respondents to conform to the ideals of general education. [See chart of survey results on page...
...estimating procedures by eliminating controversial items and drawing on improved intelligence-gathering techniques. Although the new estimate of Soviet military outlays, as calculated in dollars, was revised downward slightly, the conclusion remains: since 1972, Soviet military expenditures have surpassed America's-and the gap is widening (see chart). In the past decade Soviet troop levels (excluding border guards and internal security units) have grown by 800,000, to 3.9 million, while U.S. forces, at 2.1 million, are at their lowest since the Korean War mobilization. In the meantime, the Russians have developed seven new intercontinental ballistic missiles...
Shirley Ann Grau is now 47 years, five novels and two short-story collections old. She is, by any reasonable standard, a successful writer. Critics generally admire her work. The Keepers of the House won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Her sales chart is not dramatically craggy, but rises to a respectable plateau of long-term gains. Moreover, Grau has managed her career while raising four children as the wife of a philosophy professor in suburban New Orleans...