Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kill time?for those who like it dead. Too far in the other direction and a novel becomes pretension in a dust jacket. The author of The Honourable Schoolboy manages to skirt both terminals. But even he comes too close for comfort. Can the spy novel continue to grow without losing its value as entertainment? For David Cornwell?John le Carré?George Smiley, it is, in every sense of the word, a vital question for British intelligence.?Stefan Kanfer
...Britain's long economic malaise? Hardly. As a new Bank of England study points out, the economy is still deeply mired in stagflation. Industrial production is running 7% below its 1973 peak and is expected to grow only 2½% by the end of 1978. Unemployment has reached a postwar high of 1.6 million and is still expanding, and even an inflation rate of 12% would be ruinous over the long term. If market prices were adjusted for the withering effects of inflation since the 1972 apex, the FT index would have...
...paraphrase Justice Holmes, no one has the right to stand up in our perturbed and restless society and cry, without adequate cause, 'Cancer! Alarm! Cancer!'...So enjoy your food, and their [sic] additives, and get in the habit of eating a varied diet, and less as you grow older...
...recovery, and pumped out more than the economy needed or could use. A more technical reason is an increase in money "velocity" -the speed at which money moves from checking account to checking account. Critics fault the Fed for not anticipating that this factor would make money supply grow more quickly than it wished...
This year Eckstein expects that the G.N.P. will grow 4.8%, consumer prices will rise 6.5%, profits after taxes will expand 13% and unemployment will decline to 6.9% in the fourth quarter. Between now and 1980, there will be a great increase in the number of heads of families aged 25 to 44 who earn more than $25,000, and this will lead to a surge in sales of houses, furnishings, cars and other fairly costly goods. A happy forecast - and it is even safer to anticipate that DRI will continue to grow faster than most of the indicators that...