Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though inflation for Western Europe as a whole ran at an 11% annual pace for the first half of this year, the OECD expects declining food and commodity prices to reduce the rate to a little over 9% by year's end and perhaps as low as 7½% by mid-1978. Even at that level, the rate would still have a depressing effect on both business and consumer confidence and would continue to cast a cloud over the ability of governments to deal effectively with economic problems-particularly if inflation is accompanied by rising unemployment...
...turnstiles. In their play-off game against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers last month at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands, for example, the Cosmos drew a whopping 77,691. The New York team averaged 34,142 for its 13 home games this season, and the also-ran Minnesota Kicks drew an amazing 32,771 per contest...
...boomerang. The New York News last week quietly dropped six Doonesburys that poked fun at the paper for its breathless Son of Sam coverage. To be sure that the twitting of its rival be made public, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which has no contract with Doonesbury, ran two of the offending strips anyway...
...June, the editors of most of America's 130-odd Jewish weeklies adopted a resolution congratulating Begin on his election. The Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger described him as "a worthy leader," while the Jewish Week & American Examiner, published in New York City, ran "Glimpses of Begin," a sympathetic report on his folksy personal side designed to counter the "terrorist" image. "We didn't feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly St. Louis Jewish Light. But other editors put it differently. Says Herb Brin, editor...
Invigorated by Silverman's frenzied aggressiveness and unorthodox tactics, ABC?television's perennial also-ran in ratings, revenues and prestige?has all but obliterated its competitors in evening prime time. Last spring, at the end of the 1976-77 season, the network had the nation's four top-rated shows and seven of the top ten. CBS, which had been the premier network since television came of age in the '50s, managed to squeeze only two into the top ten. NBC, the granddaddy of all the networks, was able to place only one on those elevated rungs...