Word: rate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was very little in the news to buttress the President's buoyancy. The latest Consumer Price Index showed that inflation was running at an annual rate of 13%-the highest such rate in more than four years. A new Gallup poll indicated that Democrats prefer Senator Edward Kennedy by a hefty 58% to 31% over Carter as the nominee of their party in 1980. The oil companies were pressuring Congress to gut Carter's proposal for a tax on windfall profits when oil prices are decontrolled in June. And though at week's end negotiations between...
...attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long distances to classes...
Blacks fleeing the fighting were pouring into Salisbury at the rate of 400 a day. This refugee's family lives in a world of 6 sq. ft. next to the depot. Mango crates hold their few plates and pots and double as furniture. Dusty black rubber sheeting covers the ground by day and at night serves as roof...
...enters the fifth year of recovery, the longest in peacetime history, the U.S. economy is throwing off conflicting signals of whether it is speeding up or slowing down. Largely because inflation-pinched consumers are reducing some spending, the output of goods and services grew at a paltry 0.7% annual rate in this year's first quarter, way down from almost 7% in last year's final quarter. Yet a batch of fairly robust statistics indicates that there was a rebound in March, and that is causing a significant split in the Carter Administration over what policy to pursue...
Attendance at Hilles Library has increased. Richard J. Lamacchia, security guard at Hilles Library, said yesterday. "Students are coming in to study at twice the rate of last Sunday night," Lamacchia said. "Most of them look pretty intent. They're not wasting time talking like they might earlier in the semester," he added...