Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a potpourri is exciting and profitable, but many of the old Conchs, used to ups and downs, see storm clouds looming. They fear Key West will lose the fragile character that has made it a mecca for both the offbeat and affluent. Already, the growth has strained the island's police, fire, street and sanitation services, and caused a low-and middle-income housing crisis, accompanied by a large tax hike, that has forced many workers off the island. Last year there were frequent power shortages and sewer-pipe breaks. How well the island weathers the impending storm...
...Pier House hotel to New Orleans investors for $4.6 million (but kept his 1926 Rolls-Royce), is concerned but a bit more optimistic: "The future is secure as long as we keep this place as a getaway. If the funkiness goes, everything goes." Those opposed to further fast growth lost a big battle just last week when voters in all of the Keys, which stretch 100 miles into the gulf from Florida's southern tip, overwhelmingly approved a new $42 million water pipeline from the mainland that some warned would open the floodgates of growth...
...year earlier he was flailing at hay bales to improve his whip technique. But simple cures are often hard to find for slumping athletes. Cauthen, however, does not appear to have picked up any bad technical habits. "He's not doing anything different," growls Barrera. Nor is growth the problem; Cauthen is less than an inch taller than he was when he won the Triple Crown, and he weighs only 104. Some have suggested that after Goodman had a heart attack in July, he stopped hustling for good mounts; and that after Cauthen injured his knee in an August...
...firms are scaling back because since the 1974 oil crisis and recession, Europe's economy has been whiplashed by slow growth, sagging sales and fast-rising costs, particularly in labor. Even after inflation is taken into account, hourly wages since 1970 have jumped 61% in Belgium and 70% in Italy; in the U.S., they have increased by only 12%. With the U.S. now growing faster than Europe, multinational managers have to shave expenses or else risk having their European operations drag down the performance of the parent companies as well. As a result, businessmen are cutting their European costs...
America also failed to encourage reforms in Iran for a different reason. The CIA did not provide the U.S. government with sufficient, accurate intelligence about both the growth of opposition and its causes--among them repressive domestic policies. This was because the CIA saw SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, as a friendly intelligence service on the lines of the British or French models with whom it exchanges information, rather than an instrument of political oppression akin...