Word: rate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limit than to legitimize that buildup: "While it is true that the Soviets will in certain particulars be constrained from doing things that they otherwise would be free to do, there is enough freedom in the treaty to let them continue to invest in strategic forces at the rate at which they have been investing...
...people around him, and indeed the whole Roman Catholic Church, with infectious optimism. As Wilton Wynn, TIME bureau chief in Rome, reports, John Paul's impact is electric, exceeding even that of another people's Pope, the beloved John XXIII. Pilgrims throng the Vatican at a rate normally seen only in once-a-generation Holy Years. Vendors have sold more photos of John Paul since October than they did of Paul VI during his 15 years as Pope. Priests who hear confessions in St. Peter's have encountered five times the number of penitents...
...workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese or 1.3 Germans can do as well. Last year the Japanese had a productivity increase of 8%; the U.S. gain was only .3%. In this year's first quarter, U.S. productivity actually fell at an annual rate...
...keeps the cast in tight control, and that is all he does. He misedits the slapstick sequences, bathes every scene in pasty white light and seems incapable of placing the camera in its proper position. Then again, maybe it is just as well that there is not a first-rate film maker behind The In-Laws. Had someone directed this movie for all it is worth, the audience might never get up from the floor...
...sales slightly, to 444,000 ounces. "Combine those two, and you take out almost 20% of supply," says a U.S. gold analyst.Soviets, who earned $2.6 billion the sale of 13.8 million ounces of gold through the Wozchod Bank in rich last year, have been selling at only half that rate so far this year, perhaps wait ing for higher prices. South Africa, which supplies a steady 22.5 million ounces to the market each year, stands t earn $6.2 billion at current prices...