Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow growth of Hispanic affluence and educational attainment is mirrored in politics and in Government bureaucracies. There are five Hispanics in the House of Representatives, compared with 16 blacks and 22 Jews. The Hispanics are Edward Roybal, 62, of California; Manuel Lujan, 54, of New Mexico; Robert Garcia, 45, of New York; Henry Gonzalez, 62, and Kika de la Garza, 51, of Texas. Since the defeat of the late Joseph Montoya of New Mexico in 1976, there have been no Hispanic members of the Senate. There is only one Hispanic Governor: New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca, and he cannot succeed...
Behind the mass influx are some stark economic figures: half of Mexico's 18 million-member labor force is unemployed; a devalued peso has sent prices there spiraling; the country's 3.5% population growth is one of the world's highest. Says Border Patrolman Michael S. Williams: "They're starving to death down there...
...addition, a number of the new towns were built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Newfields (near Dayton) and Riverton and Gananda (outside Rochester) were begun when the nearby metropolitan areas were losing jobs. Other towns like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number...
Another sanguine sign: partly because conservation efforts (especially by industry) have had more effect than almost anyone originally expected, the annual growth in world oil consumption has been held to about 1% in the five years since the embargo, compared with the 5% to 7% increases in the extravagant days before. As a result, the OPEC countries have been holding their production well below full capacity; even so, they are preparing to end their two-year price freeze with an increase (perhaps 5%) next year...
...Strauss, sometimes sounds like an elephant loose at a Victorian tea party. The trombones, trumpets and horns often drown out Hendricks, even though her voice is amplified. Still, Del Tredici has a winning ear. The eerie whoosh of a theremin, a primitive electronic instrument, signals Alice's alarming growth. Tempos slow down and shoot forward, keys slip in and out of place with perfect illogic. An orchestral fugue that accompanies the jury's strident deliberations builds from a contrapuntal quarrel among strings to a glorious jumble of trumpet snorts, tuba blats and whinnying violins. And, near...