Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same economic uncertainty that last week kept the U.S. dollar bobbing against the Japanese yen and the West German mark. The latest official statistics presented at best a mixed picture of the health of American business. They put inflation last year at 1.1%, the lowest rate in a quarter-century, but also revealed that the economy was growing at a much slower rate -- 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 1986 -- than the Reagan Administration had expected...
...tide of imports has badly hurt domestic production. Along with its fourth-quarter figure, the Commerce Department announced last week that growth in the gross national product was a sluggish 2.5% in 1986, the lowest rate since the 1981-82 recession. The slump in the dollar's value, though, could prove to be less than a cure for that malaise. As the dollar falls and import prices rise, U.S. inflation could be rekindled. That in turn could lead to an increase in U.S. interest rates, which would hardly stimulate the economy and might blight the stock market's further advance...
...preliminary flash estimates on fourth-quarter GNP and unemployment late Friday afternoon,' Reston replied. 'I'm afraid ((it's)) about to hit the fan, Paul...
...wanting to test the forces of nature a second time, I invited the tube into my room. I poured him a drink and opened a full tube of lip balm. I sliced the top quarter of stick off the new tube and forced it down the neck of my annoying guest...
...bell hammer froze. Packs of hungry wolves emerged from the mountains to roam through isolated Czechoslovak villages in search of food. Across Europe last week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses and government offices, and causing more than 264 deaths. Summing up the chaos, the London Standard proclaimed: TODAY IS CANCELLED...