Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the gross national product has increased-by an annual average of 7.26% in the past three years-inflation has grown far faster, reaching a staggering 40% in Manila during 1974. Real wages have probably declined for working-class urban Filipinos. The 1976 peso has shrunk to a mere 34% of its 1967 value...
...Grunt/RCA). A decade ago, when just a mere Airplane, the San Francisco trippers pioneered acid rock. Here is their best album in years, a free-flowing blend of rock, jazz and folk...
...NEEDLEPOINT GALLERY OF PATTERNS FROM THE PAST by Phyllis Kluger. 191 pages. Knopf. $15. No mere woolgathering, the craft of needlepoint combines a meditative activity with the hard-core work ethic. Time is casually suspended stitch by stitch, but in the end something palpable gets done. Phyllis Kluger's stitches in time span nearly 5,000 years-from the arts of ancient Egypt and Byzantium to Renaissance Europe and early America. All are shown in full-color photos as well as instructional graph patterns. Kluger's historical commentary and analysis of her motifs provide an enriching dimension...
...arrests for such major crimes as bank robbery, kidnaping and espionage. The disclosures, moreover, have sent public esteem for the agency plummeting. While 84% of Americans gave a "highly favorable" rating to the FBI in a Gallup poll in 1965, only 71% did so in 1970, and a mere 37% now feel that way. Nevertheless, the disclosures have served a valuable purpose. They should discourage any future director-or President -from tolerating any use of the bureau as a secret political spying agency...
...their shares for purchase at a fixed price by a set date. A decade ago, tender offers were practically unheard of. But a record 113 offers were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the fiscal year that ended June 30, v. 105 the year before and a mere 43 four years...