Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor should hold wage and benefit increases to an average 7% annually, and companies should raise prices half a percentage point less than they did, on average, in 1976-77. The penalties: public denunciation of violators, and loss of Government contracts for companies that raise wages or prices too fast...
Consumer debt, the kind that results from credit-card purchases, installment buying and other small loans, has jumped since 1975, from $197 billion to $289 billion. Moreover, mortgage debt in the same period has risen from $479 billion to $701 billion because home prices have increased fast and people figure that houses are a good investment...
...most important distinctions in reporting growth, inflation or jobless trends is whether they are calculated "year over year" or "fourth quarter to fourth quarter." The difference can be substantial. Say that the economy rises fast during one year but is absolutely flat the next year. Even so, the averages would show a fairly strong year-over-year rise...
What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...
...Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet Show pals and such assorted human characters as Elliott Gould, Carol Kane and Telly Savalas on his journey to Los Angeles. At one point the Muppets are riding in an old Studebaker, with Fozzie...