Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This left the French and Americans, whose planes are comparable in size, speed and cost. All three compete favorably with the Soviet Union's new MIG-23 Flogger and even with the MIG-25 Foxbat at altitudes up to 50,000 ft. Still, there are major differences (see chart...
...most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...atmosphere was a bit more cheery at a Washington meeting of 29 labor leaders presided over by President Ford. The unionists applauded a chart presentation by Greenspan showing that wages have lagged behind prices and thus are not the primary cause of inflation. But the labor leaders voiced suspicion that Ford may yet resort to wage-price controls, despite his public disclaimers, and they sharply criticized the Federal Reserve's money policy. The bitterest attack was delivered in a separate forum by AFL-CIO President George Meany. In a speech in Kansas City, Mo., he declared that any Soviet...
...seven children each (no more than five survived). By the Depression year of 1936, the total fertility rate-the number of children the average woman has during her lifetime-had fallen to a low of 2.1. Twelve years after World War II, it reached a peak of 3.8 (see chart...
...cause disruptions in any nation. Even a seemingly small change can have big repercussions. If each young family in the U.S. decided to have two children, the population in 2030 would reach 264 million. But if each family decided to have three, the population would be 444 million (see chart). Demographers have used an unattractive but vivid metaphor to describe the long-term effects of a baby boom. They compare the assimilation into society of the 64 million postwar babies, the largest cohort in U.S. history, to the process by which a python digests...