Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HELP WANTED. Those welcome words continue to blossom around the U.S. at a pace so fast that even optimistic forecasters are stunned. Most economists expected the jobless rate to fall to about 7% by next year. But what they cautiously predicted has already come to pass. Last week the Labor Department announced that civilian unemployment fell from 7.5% in May to 7.1% in June, its lowest level in more than four years. Since November 1982, when unemployment hit a postwar peak of 10.7%, the brisk economic recovery has created at least 6.5 million jobs. A record 105.7 million Americans...
...started to become the most controversial, in part because the tour organizers seemed at odds with one another and with the ideals that Michael, especially, has tried to embody. Tickets were too pricey; lots of fans were getting cut out. Disorganization and ill will were rampant. Greed was keeping pace with showmanship and good p.r. manners, and seemed to be gaining on both. So when Michael and four of his brothers took the stage last Friday night at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., for the first show of a tour that will wind on into autumn...
...fast pace of the novel and the frequently less-than-plausible turns of events make Fly Away Home a bit much to swallow at times. But Piercy's prose is grounded in a very realistic portrayal of a very real woman, and her constant mention of Boston area landmarks, restaurants, and neighborhoods remind us that, yes, this is a real story. In similar moments, in fact. Daria reminds herself of the details that make her life real. She has a habit of counting her blessings, convincing herself that she exists and is happy--reminding herself of her identify...
Happily for the economy, and for Reagan, there are few signs of a fall-off yet. Quite the contrary; auto sales are the highest since 1978, and production of all goods and services in the first half of 1984 rose at the swiftest pace in 34 years. The general outlook for the rest of the year is for a slowdown to a more sustainable rate of growth, accompanied by some further declines in unemployment, which has fallen from 10.8% in December 1982 to 7.5%. Most surprising, there has been no increase in inflation of the type that usually accompanies such...
...recession much faster than the rest of the world. The U.S. gross national product is expected to rise 6% this year, after adjustment for inflation, but Western Europe's will grow only 2.5%. As a result, the U.S. is sucking in imports at a prodigious pace, while Europe is too weak to buy a matching amount of American exports. The U.S. trade balance with Western Europe has flip-flopped from an $18.6 billion surplus in 1980 to a deficit that has been running at a rate of $17.6 billion this year...