Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Affairs Committee last week, Budget Director David Stockman attempted to wave away the disruptive threat of projected Administration deficits by arguing that they will constitute a smaller proportion of a larger economy than before. The claim is a very weak reed to lean on. During Jimmy Carter's peak deficit year of 1980, the red ink reached $59.5 billion, or 2.3% of the nation's $2.6 trillion gross national product. By contrast, the CBO's projected Reagan deficit of $109 billion for fiscal 1982 will be at least 3.6% of the G.N.P., or within...
Despite the trouble it has had controlling the money supply, the Federal Reserve's policy has significantly helped bring down the level of inflation, which in the final analysis represents the most pernicious threat to the economy. From a peak of close to 19% in the first three months of 1980, the annual rate of consumer price increase has slowed steadily in the past two years. During 1981, prices rose at an annual rate of 8.9%, compared with 12.4% in 1980. During the last three months of 1981, prices were increasing at a moderate 5.3% annual rate. Many economists...
...worry about the political clout, or the dignity, of people they show (dignity in hockey?). They are freer to rearrange reality. Roone Arledge invented prime-time Olympics-singling out anticipated stars to build up in advance, juggling tapes, and the clock to show the most dramatic events at peak hours. Purists may object that Arledge's rewed-up Olympics test like the sprawly Olympics of actuality, but the test is the same as for orange-juice concentrate: more people seem to prefer it to the real thing...
...tumbling brown locks, the widow's peak, the natural eyebrows, the full lips, the dimple on the right cheek. They are all there, only smaller. Much, much smaller. For those who loved the movies (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully...
About 20 percent of classes at peak hours--Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon, and Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m.--will have to move to other times, Rosovsky said in his letter...