Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bullying going down in this town, my new home, and one must strive not to be caught without a device to ease the pressure gathering under the hood. Lead on, o kinky turtle. The first time I invoked the expression was on the George Washington Bridge. At a quarter past one, I was 20 miles from the Hudson River. At half past three, I was across...
...Orleans had been an early favorite. It has a wealth of new hotels stretching from the Superdome to the French Quarter, a redeveloped riverfront, and is seen by many as the best place to party. But its request for a delay may have hurt its chances. "If they can't get it together for one lousy little weekend," complained one committee member, "how are they going to pull off a convention?" The rival cities couldn't have been more pleased...
...white-haired and bespectacled man who looks like the traditional family doctor he once was, Otis Ray ("Doc") Bowen served as a general practitioner for more than a quarter of a century in Bremen, Ind. He knows about the ravages of long illness personally as well as professionally: his first wife Beth spent the last three months of her life in a hospital before she died of bone cancer in 1981. The experience was "devastating emotionally," Bowen recalls, adding, "We have all seen how devastating illness can destroy the financial security of a family...
...during 1986, they generally found reasons to be pleased rather than dissatisfied. The best news for everyone was that the economic recovery persevered through 1986, its fourth straight year, with no apparent signs of coming to a halt in 1987. The economy began the year with a robust first-quarter growth of 3.8%. The stimulus came partly from a short but intense home-building boom that took off as mortgage rates declined to as low as 9.5%. Sales of new homes surged 24.7% in March, to an annual rate of 924,000, the highest level on record...
...economy's weakest moments came during the year's second quarter, when fears began to grow that the recovery might have run out of momentum. Growth virtually stagnated from April through June, expanding a measly .6%. A primary cause was trouble in America's farm and oil-producing states, whose woes temporarily dragged down the whole U.S. economy. But the downturn jitters proved unwarranted; the economy bounced back with a 2.8% expansion in the third quarter and was expected to perform at about that level during the October-December period...