Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slump is buyers' snubbing of luxury and even standard models, while the demand for fuel-thrifty small cars is far outstripping Detroit's ability to produce them. Buyers are increasingly turning to Toyotas, Volkswagens and other economically operated foreign makes, which now account for nearly a quarter of the U.S. market...
Across the country, the battle is turning increasingly political and is waged by men and women who offer no quarter. It is a fierce clash of fundamental beliefs in which name calling is considered as potent as reasoned argument. Thus the antiabortionists call themselves "pro-lifers" and denounce their opponents as "baby killers." Those who support a woman's right to abortion call themselves "prochoice" and deride the other side as "compulsory pregnancy people...
...cities and the countryside has a long way to go to match that in Japan or the West, but it is far superior to what North Korea has to offer. For many South Koreans, who remember the grinding poverty they endured as a war-destroyed nation just a quarter-century ago, the rewards of modernization still outweigh its abuses-and Park's rule is more tolerable than the alternatives...
...also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used at banks. In fact, the " Susan's" only flaw may be its size, which is just slightly larger than a quarter. Some women have already been heard to snicker that they do not know what that is supposed to reflect-the status of women or the status of the dollar...
...March the Administration tried to improve the thrifts' earnings by dropping the quarter-point premium that they were required to pay on M.M.C.s. when the Treasury-bill rate was at 9% or above. But this backfired because the commercial banks then moved aggressively to compete for M.M.C. sales, cutting into savings-bank deposits...