Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robust annual rate of 6.9% in the final quarter of last year, pretax corporate earnings soared at an annual rate of 26.4% over the year before, and unemployment dropped to 5.7%, its lowest level in 4½ years. All that normally good news suggested an economy growing too fast to thwart inflation...
...former Texas Governor has got off to such a fast start that he has become Reagan's principal rival for the nomination in a race that most political experts predict will be settled in the early state primaries. The first is in New Hampshire, eleven months from now. Last week Connally, accompanied by Wife Nellie and a van of political reporters, made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar...
Meanwhile, the hamburger heavyweight, McDonald's, is being challenged by hungry competitors, notably Burger King, a subsidiary of Pillsbury Co. McDonald's 5,200 outlets, which account for about 20% of the $20 billion spent last year on fast food, generated earnings of $163 million on sales of $4.6 billion in 1978. McDonald's opened 500 new outlets last year and expects to continue expanding at that pace for the next three to five years. But that cannot make up for the slowdown in annual earnings growth, which dropped to 19% last year from roughly 40% five...
...class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know who Pan is?" he asked. They did not; he explained...
...every 25 Maui residents is in the real estate business. Says Teney Takahashi, 40, the energetic. Oahu-born president of Amfac Communities-Maui, the island's first bigtime real estate developer: "I'm not kidding you, we just can't build 'em fast enough." Francis Blackwell, 54, Boston-born executive director of the Maui County Visitors Association, boasts: "We have more millionaires per capita than any other place in the country, including Palm Springs." To which Kapalua Land Co.'s Oregon-born vice president, Michael Gallagher, 36, adds: "How many more rich people can there...