Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...
...look better for Kodak. Sales began picking up in October and November, and analysts estimate that U.S. Christmas business was some 10% better than in 1981. Chairman Chandler insists that the firm "bottomed out" of its slump in 1983 and will soon resume growing at its normally brisk pace. "We know we are capable of performing much better than we have," says he. Once Kodak's new products begin arriving, he believes, the memories of last year's troubles will begin to fade. -By John Greenwald...
Last year's peppier bond sales still ran far below the $7.8 billion pace of 1978. Nonetheless, Treasury officials are convinced that the savings bond is on its way back to being a blue-chip investment and a superb stocking stuffer...
...week, he had scored at least one point in every game, 39 games and counting, nine beyond the old record. Now and then, hockey teams might expect to be shut out, but not the Edmonton Oilers, evidently. With 42 goals and 71 assists, Gretzky is ahead of his brightest pace, and Jari Kurri, his right winger, is second in the National Hockey League with 34 goals and 43 assists...
...question is whether Jackson will end one campaign and begin another. He has been running at a ragged pace to keep the yet-to-be established office known as the Leader of Blacks. He has successfully launced the largest voter registration movement in the country's history. Can he move from those campaigns to a real presidential one? In a field of Democratic candidates that make a lifelong Democratic want to vote for Reagan, it is possible that an alternative may present itself in Jesse Jackson. The rescue of Lt. Goodman points to such an idea, still narrowly conceived amid...