Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Least sanguine is David Grove, chief economist of IBM. Though he anticipates slightly under 5% growth this year, he looks for a decline in expansion rates during the second half of 1978, and in the third quarter of 1979 an anemic increase of just 2% to 3%. Says Grove: "We will have a fragile economy as we get into the latter part of next year. When that happens, it doesn't take much in the way of external shocks to push the economy downhill fairly fast...
...Lummis, Hughes' heirs, who number 23 in all, are contesting the Mormon will. They want the estate to be divided according to a formula that would give nearly one-quarter to Lummis' mother and distribute the rest among the others. Davis, meanwhile, is starting his own case in which he will argue that although a written will has not been found, Hughes' real and declared intent was to leave his whole fortune to the medical institute. Even in Las Vegas, no one is willing to bet how long these trials will take or what the outcome will...
...about a third of the Poverty Datum Line (PDL), the minimum needed for survival. (It is generally conceded that 150 per cent of the PDL is needed for a decent life, as the PDL makes no provision for things like medicine, education, furniture or recreation). About a quarter of the Africans living in the Bantustans are both landless and jobless. Death reigns in the barren huts: half the children die before age six; starvation, malnutrition and diseases like tuberculosis are common. A study in the early '60s found that in some Bantustans, mothers and children ate only three times...
...slightly higher than the country's average--at or just above the PDL. But in their search for higher profits, these companies ask only that South African wages be lower than wages they would have to pay Americans--and their black workers earn, on average, less than a quarter of their U.S. counterparts' wages. In addition, the companies cite average pay, glossing over big differences between a handful of relatively well-paid Africans and the other black workers. Most U.S. companies do not recognize unions for their African employees. Finally, no matter what their intentions, U.S. firms cannot provide...
...series typified the problems that faced Harvard the whole day. Late in the third quarter, trailing 14-0, the Crimson had its final chance to get back in the game when the Minuteman punter was smothered on his own nine yardline...