Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just might, at last, slow down money growth. The money supply did in fact increase much more gently in October; during the week ended Oct. 25 it actually fell a striking $5.4 billion, to $358.9 billion. Not much can be read into one week's figures, but the drop came even before the sharp jumps in the discount and Fed funds rates. Bankers view the $3 billion increase in reserve requirements as an especially important, direct move to restrain the money supply...
...drop from 23 to 18 per cent in 1977-78 reversed a five-year trend of increases in the percentage of women among newly-hired teachers, but Crooks said the figures for 1978-79 are back up to 21 per cent...
...have no explanation for the temporary drop," Crooks said. "As far as I know the availability of women was no different that year and no more women than usual who were offered posts, turned them down...
...some form of price support has to be continued?and a case can be made for it as a kind of disaster insurance?the practice of setting target prices just high enough to cover most production costs is a good one. But many experts believe the Government should drop its set-aside programs and once more urge farmers to produce. The U.S. and the world need all the food that American farmers can grow. Set-asides also tend to benefit big farmers, who can more easily take, say, 10% of their land out of production than small growers...
Zooming costs of processing and distribution have created a strange paradox. Higher farm prices instantly bring increases at the grocery checkout, but retail food prices can also go on rising while farm prices drop sharply. Example: the Soviet grain purchase of 1972 and other heavy export demand kicked off a few years of unprecedented farm prosperity. Net farm income more than doubled in three years to an unparalleled $33 billion in 1973, and soaring retail food prices combined with OPEC's oil gouging to produce double-digit inflation. In 1976 and 1977, farm prices broke; farm income shriveled...