Word: clips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vengeance." Already, there are signs that inflation may be starting to creep back up. The Government announced last week that consumer prices, led by higher energy costs, rose at a 6.7% annual rate in May. For the past two months, prices have gone up at a 7% yearly clip, compared with a 3.9% rate...
...Kojak episode? A clip from Hill Street Blues? No, the dramatic scene is a real confession on videotape. It is one that may be repeated 500 times this year by the district attorney's office in The Bronx. The technique has resulted in a guilty-plea rate of 85% and a conviction rate of almost 100%. And New York City is not alone. Taped confessions are the latest tools of enterprising law-enforcement agencies around the country...
When the curtain rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...
...gross national product. As a result, the board now predicts that G.N.P. will grow at a robust annual rate of 6% in the second quarter. That represents a significant increase from the 4.3% rate members forecast when they met in February, and would approach the 7% clip that postwar recoveries have averaged during the first year after a recession...
...many of these institutions raising their fees at a clip greater than the 3.9% inflation rate of 1982? For one thing, private colleges depend on tuition for more than half their income. During the past decade, even when inflation hit its peak of 13.3% in 1979, most schools hesitated to boost fees at the same rate to cover costs that were climbing as well. As a result, faculty raises lagged and colleges deferred maintenance. Moreover, Government research grants, which help sustain 50 to 60 of the larger universities, private as well as public, have leveled off in the Reagan years...