Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that size, Administration economists figured that it was needed to stimulate profits, investment and employment, and thus head off a business slowdown forecast for the second half of the year. Since then, inflation has picked up speed, to an annual rate of 9.2% during the first quarter of the year. Observed Charles Schultze, Carter's chief economic adviser: "Economic conditions change, and we would be idiots not to change...
...their parents in a comfortable duplex on Rome's suburban Via del Forte Trionfale. The second daughter, Anna Giordano, 29. a pediatrician reputedly as meditative and complex as her father, came home again to await word. Anna, although seven months pregnant, at one point evaded reporters, walked a quarter of a mile to a bus stop, then rode for three miles to retrieve from a telephone booth Moro's final letter to his family. The oldest daughter, Maria Fida Bonini, 32. a newspaper reporter (against her father's wishes), came often from her apartment near...
...project that will bring natural gas to the newly planned industrial cities of Yanbo on the Red Sea and Jubail on the Persian Gulf, which are costing $30 billion to build. In the past three years, the Saudis have built nearly 300,000 housing units?enough for a quarter of the Saudi population. In a land where education a generation ago was essentially in the hands of the ulema, a powerful group of conservative Islamic religious leaders. 960,000 young Saudis are now in high schools and colleges...
...news digest titled "The Real World." Traditionally, that was a place undergraduates had to wait many years to see firsthand. But now more and more students, finding that it is a long way from kindergarten to graduate school, are "stopping out," as educators put it. At Stanford, almost a quarter of all students take at least one leave of absence. The stop-out rate at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has ranged between 43% and 56% in recent years. Says Dr. Robert Dunham, vice president for undergraduate studies at Penn State, where leave-taking is up a third since 1971: "Stopping...
...question," says Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser, "that the economy is in a surge. Industrial production for April probably was up a full percentage point." Greenspan predicts a real increase in G.N.P. of 8% to 10% at an annual rate in the second quarter, and a still strong 5% in the third. Nobody on the board seriously disagrees...