Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Inc., the New York-based public-opinion-research firm. The analysts tabulated the recent results last week from telephone interviews conducted in mid-May with a representative sample of 1,014 Americans of voting age. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%; in estimating trends from one quarter to another, the error factor is plus or minus...
...average projected earlier (Greenspan said the rate is likely to rise for May and that it will top 9% before it gets better). But they also predicted a stronger recovery after midyear than their February estimates had envisioned. Greenspan implied that real gross national product-total production minus price increases-will rise more than 5% in the third quarter and more than 7% in the fourth. For 1976 the Administration once expected only 4.8% real growth; now it is forecasting 6.3%. The original budget forecast had assumed that consumer prices in 1975 would average 11.3% higher than...
...need children feel guilty about putting their parents in some of the smaller, less shiny but equally good homes round the country. Associated with the Christian Missionary Alliance, the Alliance Residence in Minneapolis is a nondescript three-story building minus any lush lobby or manicured grounds. But what it lacks in gilding, it more than makes up for in concern for its patients. Alliance's 100 occupants are in the care of seven nurses and 25 nurse's aides, who work hi three shifts so that the home will be staffed round the clock. Most of Alliance...
...Children, which brought over a large proportion of the young refugees, said that all tots handled by her agency were either truly orphaned or had been deliberately -and irrevocably-handed over for adoption by their parents. Dempsey acknowledged that some children might have arrived in the U.S. minus their requisite papers, since many documents were lost when the C-5A went down...
...Daly groused about the bureaucratic bad-mouthing he had endured, AID announced its own plan: the U.S. Government would bring all 2,000 children-minus those transported by Daly-to their new parents within days. Travis Air Force Base in California and other West Coast installations prepared to serve as way stations...