Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news is, minus the subtleties, pretty much the same as it was last year: for the eighth year in a row, undergraduate student fees will go up a good deal. Tuition, room and board together will rise about $500 next year, to a total of $6430 in 1976-77 fees...
...Production of goods and services in the third quarter shot up even more rapidly than first reported. The Commerce Department calculates that real gross national product−output minus inflation−leaped at an annual rate of 13.2%, v. a preliminary estimate...
...stamps, a family (or single person) would have to pay a uniform 30% of their net income minus a flat $100 monthly deduction. Example: a family with a monthly net income of $300 would take the deduction, leaving it with $200; of this, it would have to spend 30%-or $60 a month-on food stamps. At present, most recipients pay between 16% to 24% of their incomes for stamps on the basis of a complicated formula that allows deductions for family size and a wide range of expenses...
...Real gross national product, the nation's total output of goods and services minus the effects of price increases, rose in the third quarter at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 11.2% -or more than even the most optimistic economists had been predicting. During the April-June quarter, G.N.P. inched upward at a modest rate of 1.9%, following five consecutive and worsening quarterly declines. Main reason for the third-quarter spurt: the depressing effect of inventory cutting on production lessened greatly. Businessmen reduced inventories during the period at an annual rate of only $9.5 billion, v. $31 billion during...
...with references to Joltin' Joes's 56 game hitting streak and the Nazi invasion of Russia, but so what and who needs it. Robert Mitchum plays it very low-keyed. As a matter of fact, on the energy level barometer the entire production rates about a minus five. Mitchum himself is none too enthusiastic about the movie. Asked if he recommended seeing it, he hesitated. "Well, if it's a real hot day and you want to go someplace air conditioned and there's nothing else to do..." I want my Velma...