Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-piece suit than in his fields. The new archetype of the farmers "who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry" is Pat Benedict, who has $3.5 million in assets, 3,500 acres planted in wheat and sugar beets, and who averages a return of 3.5 per cent on his investment. Pat runs his farm with calculators, computer print-outs and "precise operating schedules...
...relaxation of the salmonella containment policy will also allow some part-time student kitchen workers to return to work. However, some dining halls still report serious labor shortages because the University is allowing students to work only at those dining halls where they...
Iacocca's return was almost as startling as his departure. Only last July, one of Detroit's sharpest marketing men was abruptly ousted after 32 years at Ford, the last eight years as president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...
Some help for the inflation-weary: the nation's 4,668 federally chartered banks can now offer interest on what is, in effect, money deposited for checking, and many have begun doing so. For the first time since the Depression, consumers can get some return on funds that the banks have long been able to use for free...
...first truly liberated heroine: a capable, ambitious working woman who was perfectly content to turn 40 without having found a husband. When MTM voluntarily ceased production at the end of the 1976-77 season, Moore's admirers quite naturally assumed that their heroine would soon return in yet another rich and adventurous series...