Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of inflation -rose by an anemic 3%, about half the rise that is normal for the first year of recovery from a recession. The rate of price increases declined only slowly before the freeze, averaging around 4% for the year v. 5.5% in 1970. Unemployment climbed to a peak of 6.2% in May, and hung stubbornly close to that level for most of the year. The combination of unemployment and inflation frightened consumers into a particularly wary mood, and the deficit budget that Nixon unfurled early in the year-in another philosophical defiance of G.O.P. tradition-proved insufficient...
...Gauntlet. Like the ground war, the air war has subsided in South Viet Nam only to continue in Laos and Cambodia. By some measures, American air activity is way down; since the peak days of 1968, aircraft sorties have declined by 65%, while the number of U.S. combat planes in the area has dropped from 1,350 to about...
Back home in Vienna, no one was very much surprised that Waldheim had reached the peak of an admirably planned career. Son of a school inspector who changed the family name from Waclawik to the socially more acceptable Waldheim, he decided in high school to become a diplomat and set about acquiring the credentials, starting with studies at the Vienna Consular Academy and at Vienna University. During World War II, he fought with the German army on the Russian front until he was wounded in 1942 and sent home, where he completed his law degree. He joined the Austrian foreign...
...Crimson, after strong playoff shutouts of Southern Connecticut (5-0) and Brown (3-0) and a very impressive 4-1 win over the nation's fourth ranked team, Hartwick, in the Dec. 4 Eastern Championships, appeared on its way to reaching a peak in team performance for the Miami finals...
While the air war reaches peak intensity throughout Indochina and fighting accelerates in Cambodia, it may be wholly inappropriate to discuss two of the so-called "humanitarian" problems: prisoners of war and forced civilian relocation...