Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise team was the Crimson. Favored to finish no better than fifth against competition that was mostly varsity-level, Harvard made it to the three-team final round with an 8-4 record in the preliminary round-robin...
...very hopeful about slowing inflation. The reason: the U.S. economy is showing such unexpected strength that the recession predicted for this year by many economists may not occur until later. Presidential aides cited figures indicating that the economy grew at a 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...
...Commerce Department's preliminary figures for corporate profits in the final three months of 1978 seemed to suggest that pretax earnings had risen at an annual rate of more than 26%. Other calculations put the rise even higher. The reports of these large gains coincided with news that the Consumer Price Index in February had jumped at an annual rate of 15.4%, the worst rise in 4½ years. The result: an avalanche of criticism that business must be doing something nefarious to make so much and that the White House was failing to enforce price guidelines...
...church hardly rushed to judgment. After years of official "discussions" that proved fruitless, formal proceedings against him began in 1976. At the hearings, hardly a trial, Schulz played to a sometimes cheering gallery of theology students. By the seventh and final session this Jan. 23 Schulz was accusing his accusers: "You are upholding your old notions of God so you can uphold your own institutional power." No leading West German theologian championed his cause...
...Ozawa circled the oval floor along with his mother and an ever growing parade of musicians. Next morning almost the whole Peking Philharmonic showed up at the airport to say goodbye with gifts and mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign read CHINA SCISSORS...