Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bush and his wife Barbara-their five children remained in the U.S.-have with their informal manner made friends among the Chinese. They take bicycle tours around the city, play tennis at the international tennis club, and give hamburger and hot-dog parties on the grounds of the American compound. When the message arrived from Gerald Ford asking him to take over the CIA, Bush was out bicycling...
...once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with their dogs, turkeys and barefoot children, barring entrance to all. Though they are owed four months of back pay, they...
Trudeau's sudden turnaround is a clear admission that the milder medicine he championed during the 1974 election campaign has failed. Although the government has urged business and labor to hold down price and wage hikes voluntarily, inflation in 1975 has run at a discouraging compound annual rate of 12.7%, and government economists have predicted that it could reach 16% by year's end. Wage increases have averaged almost 19% yearly-twice the U.S. rate-even though more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major...
...last year, however, doctors have confirmed 19 cases of the cancer in the U.S. alone, 17 of them in people who worked in plastics plants. There is growing sentiment to ban the use of PVC for containers and plastic wraps for food and drinks; some doctors fear that the compound leaches into the food and could cause cancer...
...Wholesale Price Index in September climbed at a compound annual rate of 7.4%, or slightly less than in August...