Word: risen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the economy and Carter's fragile political position demand quick action. Indeed, at week's end the Administration reported that the Consumer Price Index for February had risen an alarming 1.2%, the largest monthly jump in the cost of living since 1974. If that rate were to continue, inflation would leap 15.4% in twelve months. Carter had predicted an increase...
...price-per-gallon of home heating oil has risen by about ten cents since September, Richard Slifka, treasurer of Kyett Oil Company in Cambridge, said yesterday. He added that the average homeowner's bill has gone from about $600 to about $730 since last winter...
...gross national product on health care at the turn of the century, now spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will be doling out 12%, or $1 trillion, annually by the end of the century. The cost of hospital care over the past ten years has risen more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living (see chart). Carter called the spiraling hospital cost "outrageous" and warned that it was a significant factor in inflation, but one that could be controlled. And Carter argued that a failure to contain inflation would endanger "the basic structure...
...Petroleum in London two weeks ago, while guests sipped cocktails and swapped tales about their spot profits, one trader offered to sell a 50,000-ton cargo of heating oil at $260 a ton. Then he disappeared and discovered that in New York City the spot price had risen to $300 a ton. He withdrew his offer and next morning found a buyer at $316. The trader's profit between dinner and lunch came...
...number of jobs has risen by more than a third during the 1970s, and unemployment in the past year is down from 4.1% to 2.9%, which is about as low as it can go in America's highly mobile society. (The national average is 5.8%.) Business leaders are eagerly advertising around the country for more skilled workers. If any butcher, baker or engineer wants a job, he or she will have no trouble finding it in this bustling producer of meat, wheat, planes...