Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...output goes down again in the current quarter, many politicians surely will be talking about a second Nixon recession-and an inflationary one at that. There were other downbeat indicators: industrial production in March fell for the fourth straight month, and is now 2.8% below its November peak; housing starts last month were 36% below a year earlier. The declines did little to break the grip of inflation. Consumer prices in March shot up at a compound annual rate of 14%. Banks across the country raised their prime rate on business loans to an unprecedented...
...sense a movie mecca, one of the biggest movie towns in the country. "Not big enough," though, says an official of more than one of the commercial houses. More than 30 years after the most successful business years for Hollywood, the movie business in Cambridge has finally passed its peak...
...first years of the '70s--years during which even esoteric film festivals would catch on quickly, when fairly large numbers of college kids for the first time began to center their lives around the movies as an art form. Almost paradoxically, movies in Cambridge began to hit their peak at about the same time as student radicalism. Passive movie going merged with active protest. The student movement was gaining steam at the same time that the entrepreneurs who started the Orson Welles were figuring that the Cambridge movie public was large enough to support two new theaters...
...still the 'shoulder season.' Starting June 1, the 'peak season' begins and we add a surcharge, accounting for the increase in fares," a TWA spokesman said yesterday...
...Advertising Service, a distributor of college advertising, sent a wire yesterday to all involved college newspapers, notifying them of the addition of the sentence regarding peak-season price hikes...