Word: finally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis drags on into the new year, the impact of the long stalemate over the hostages is less predictable. The political benefit Carter has gained could erode as national impatience increases. The final resolution of the crisis will determine whether Carter benefits or suffers from his handling of the situation...
...been the remarkable rise in jobs, but opportunities will dry up next year. Though plenty of openings will remain for the skilled, untrained workers will be let go and let down. Unemployment, which dropped slightly last month to 5.8%, is expected to rise to 7.7% by the final quarter of 1980. That will be not nearly as severe as the recent peak of 9% in May 1975. Most board members agree that unemployment will hit a high around Election Day in November, which will hurt Jimmy Carter, and that the jobless rate again will start declining as the economy picks...
...acquired only 60% of Aramco's $2 billion in refineries, pipelines and ports. Has Aramco persuaded the Saudis to go slow, since a full buyout would burden the four corporate shareholders with enormous U.S. capital gains taxes? Nonsense, say Saudi officials. They insist that the final take-over is imminent and would have no effect on the company's operations beause Aramco would continue to run them for a fee. But skeptics suggest that the takeover might already have been consummated. They contend that the Saudi government's action in providing Aramco since last July with...
...dropped from 8% to 1%. The firm, which today employs 130, estimates that for its first complete fiscal year it will earn a pretax profit of up to $600,000 on revenues of $7 million; that is less than the approximately $12 million in revenues of Aeroquip's final year but at least double the new owners' initial projections...
...final major meet before next July's Olympic Games in Moscow, U.S. men won three gold medals, three silvers and a bronze in individual events. At the last world championships in 1978, the U.S. took just one men's event -Thomas in the floor exercises. This time, Thomas won two gold medals and two silvers, and came within .275 of a point, after 18 events, of beating the Soviets' Alexander Ditiatin for the coveted all-around title. Amer ica's Bart Conner won a gold on the parallel bars and a bronze on the vault. What...