Word: recording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the I.R.A. did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved in coming to this country. In my opinion, the I.R.A. achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland...
...Open and the U.S. Amateur championships in the same year (1916) and who toured the greens with five Presidents; in Chicago. A former caddie, Indianapolis-born "Chick" Evans had to drop out of Northwestern University when he ran out of funds. He went on to compete in a record 50 successive U.S. amateur championships and in 1930 contributed his winnings to establish the Evans Scholars Foundation, which has enabled more than 4,000 former caddies to attend college...
Since the Federal Reserve action, the prime interest rate paid by top corporations has jumped another 2% beyond its previously record heights to reach 15½%, and bankers believe that it may go still higher. Interest rates on Government bonds have leaped above levels prevailing at the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces were encamped at Manassas, ready to march on Washington. The Dow Jones index of industrial stocks since early October has slumped nearly 100 points and closed last week...
Breaking the inflationary psychology after 15 years of ever higher prices will be a titanic task. The American consumer has developed the attitude of "buy now before it's higher," as new figures showed again last week. Consumer installment debt exploded by a record $4.5 billion during September to a total of $303.9 billion. The lemming-like rush of consumers into debt could force the Federal Reserve to push interest rates still higher or perhaps to begin limiting the amount of credit available...
Last week, like proud parents of a sickly child who suddenly won the bantam championship, AMC announced that profits more than doubled, to a record $83.9 million on sales of $3.1 billion for the fiscal year ended in September. True, earnings declined in the industry's dismal last quarter, but they were down less than those at the Big Three. In October, AMC rode up again: car sales surged 37%, while they sank 21% for the industry as a whole...