Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of $2.95 an hour. "I don't like the work, which is dull and boring," he says, "but on my salary I have been able to marry, rent a small apartment...
...fact, the economy was somewhat stronger in August and September than it was in the early summer. With gasoline readily available again, buyers have returned to shopping centers and auto showrooms. Reflecting this consumer boomlet, the Commerce Department guesstimates that the economy may have actually grown at an annual rate of 1% in the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, which begins this week, the brief spending splurge is expected to fade, and the pace of business will slow sharply...
...August, and a majority of TIME'S board predict that it will reach 8% by next summer, meaning some 8 million Americans will be out of work. That is severe, of course, but not as bad as during the 1974-75 recession, when the jobless rate...
...JENSEN--Not the newscaster, but a 6-ft. 4 3/4-in. Terrier quarterback who leads Division I AA in passing efficiency with a 63.8 per cent rate (30 of 47, no interceptions, 412 yards and five...
...antinuclearism becomes respectable, some antinuclear activists gravitate towards national politics, giving the previously localist movement a Washington focus. Antinuclear lobbyists have developed their own version of a moratorium--the nuclear phaseout. Phaseout to some people means no further expansion of the nuclear program, or even just a slowed rate of increase coupled with speeded-up development of conservation and soft energy technologies. Some phaseout plans allow for continued construction and use of nukes well into the twenty-first century before other energy sources can completely replace fission power. But we want, and demand, more: no more plants must be built...