Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sears may have been the target because it is the world's largest retailer (1978 sales: $18 billion), and a victory would give a lift to Carter's price fight. Surely a boost is needed. Consumer prices rose at a 13% annual rate in the first quarter, and wholesale prices for April were reported last week to have increased at an 11.4% annual rate, despite declines for some foods, including pork and coffee...
...been a prodigious profit cow for RCA in recent years, regularly furnishing about one-quarter of pretax earnings and in 1975 supplying 31%. But the milk was growing watery. By the end of 1978, NBC's pretax profit contribution dropped to 17.6%, less than two other RCA divisions. So Griffiths-"Bottom Line Ed," as he is known at RCA-went out and hired "the man with the golden gut," Fred Silverman...
...undefeated Elis took an early lead in the Eastern Sprint championship race in Worcester and steadily expanded its lead over the 2000-meter course, finishing with a length-and-a-quarter margin over the Crimson and a time of 6:09.1 to Harvard's 6:12.5 and Dartmouth...
Both leaders began the race without any problems, but Yale soon opened up a quarter-of-a-length lead which it maintained until the 500-meter mark...
...With one-quarter of the race gone, Yale moved to a three-seat lead, rowing at a 36-strokes-per-minute cadence, and Harvard, at 37, still could not gain...