Word: clara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ward off a recession than it was in 1980. At that time, inflation was 12%, and Volcker had little choice but to give the economy a cold shower. This year price rises have been so modest that Treasury Secretary Donald Regan has taken to asking in the manner of Clara ("Where's the beef?") Peller, "Where's the inflation?" Since January the consumer price index has risen at an annual rate of 4.5%. Producer prices, which often foreshadow trends in consumer costs, have gone up at a mild 1.8% pace so far this year and have actually declined...
...industry's latest profit reports reveal the extent to which semiconductor makers have been raking in the chips. Last week Intel Corp., a major Santa Clara, Calif., producer of logic and memory circuits, said its third-quarter earnings more than doubled to $70 million, vs. $32.1 million last year. Advanced Micro Devices had an even bigger gain. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker made $42.1 million in its latest quarter, against $12.2 million for the same period a year...
...path. In a pair of sudden moves, International Business Machines (1983 revenues: $40 billion) demonstrated its determination to boost sales and broaden its product line. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced a deal to acquire, for $1.25 billion, 100% of Rolm, a leading manufacturer of telecommunications equipment based in Santa Clara, Calif. IBM already owns 23% of Rolm (fiscal 1984 revenues: $660 million), but Big Blue, as IBM is nicknamed for its corporate color, had previously said it would not seek control of the smaller company. On another front, IBM introduced two lines of business software for personal computers and thus...
...national walkout. "A strike puts a pall on the entire industry, not just GM," said Ronald Kelly, a Ford dealer in Stamford, Conn. After the tough years of the late 1970s and early 1980s, dealers once again face a sales slump. Those with low inventory are especially worried. Said Clara Benjamin, co-owner of Bay Chevrolet in Queens, N.Y.: "A strike is going to affect us very badly. We will be laying off help if this turns out to be a long...
...scene is an airstrip in Jamastrán, Honduras, recently improved by the U.S. Two armed Americans lift off in a helicopter carrying 36 rockets and a machine gun. It joins three Cessna aircraft in a contra raid on a military school and an electric plant near Santa Clara, ten miles inside Nicaragua. The planes fire 24 rockets, killing a 40-year-old male civilian and three girls. The chopper is shot down, and its three occupants are killed. The Americans were on a combat mission with the knowledge and implicit approval...