Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the gasoline shortage and the economic slowdown have hurt sales for all the automakers, times have been particularly rough for the weakest of the Big Three, Chrysler Corp. After the company lost an unexpectedly large $53.8 million for the first quarter, Group Vice President Harold Sperlich admitted, "You cannot stand too many quarters like that and keep the company afloat." Some Wall Street analysts expect that 1979 losses will top last year's $204.6 million...
...Unemployment will climb from 5.8% now to a peak of 7.3%, or perhaps higher, by the second quarter...
...Inflation will run at an annual rate of 8% by next December, then slip to 7% by December 1980. A major reason for this slowdown is that the recent rate of price rises is unlikely to continue. In the first quarter alone, fuel jumped at an annual rate of 25%, and home financing, including mortgage rates, taxes and insurance, shot...
...million per acre. Finally, since they appear only once every 13 or 17 years, nature may have endowed them with an unlikely mathematical defense. These are prime numbers, divisible only by themselves, and so parasites would have to live at least as long-a half or a quarter would be improbable-to partake in a 17-year feast...
Four members of the Crimson lacrosse squad also played in the New England All-Star game yesterday, taking the field for the East squad, which lost 20-17. Faught played attack, Egasti and Nelson midfield, and First goalie--where he yielded just one goal in the quarter he played. Harvard coach Bob Scalise rotated three other goalies in the other three quarters...