Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase over March and the highest level in 13 months. Meanwhile, the average number of hours that workers spent in manufacturing jobs rose from 39.6 a week in March to 40.1 last month. With factories humming at a faster pace, new orders continued to rise. Led by a big jump in commercial aircraft contracts, April capital goods orders were up a surprising 9.6%. Board Member Otto Eckstein, chairman of the Massachusetts-based Data Resources economic forecasting firm, was unable to attend last week's meeting but said in an interview afterward: "It now looks as if plant and equipment...
Curiously, Rosch notes, today's pressures have created a breed of thrill seekers who, often to their own detriment, prefer excitement over tranquillity. Life in the fast lane becomes a dangerous habit for them. "Skydivers get hooked on the jump," he says, "executives purposely arrive at the airport at the last possible minute. People today have become addicted to their own adrenaline secretion...
...first public stock in March, its founder, K. Philip Hwang, was instantly worth about $500 million. Telerate, a company that provides securities price quotations electronically to money managers, went public last month, and a group of British investors watched the value of their 90% stake in the firm jump from $75 million to $740 million...
Leotards and tights to wear while exercising are now a sleekly packaged business with estimated sales of $500 million a year. One company in that field, Flexatard Inc. of Los Angeles, has seen sales jump from $363,000 in 1977 to $25 million last year. MacLevy Products Corp. of New York City turned out about 2,400 treadmills for indoor runners last year, at prices ranging from $640 for a simple nonmotorized model to nearly $6,000 for a superdeluxe electronic version that measures speed and mileage and displays distance on a small screen. About half of MacLevy...
...almost everything else in the junk culture, actually influenced behavior more profoundly than the official culture did. Openly, instead of in the coded language of melodrama, the picture suggested that most of the violence in society was both meaningless and affectless. And this it did with a brash, jump-cut technique that seemed to be anti-technique. Dedicated to Monogram Pictures, the old Poverty Row movie mill, this was a Hollywood film as it might have been had the place served as the locale instead of a state of mind...