Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repetitions of the tests showed that deVries' subjects averaged a 4.9% drop in body fat, a 6% reduction in diastolic blood pressure, a 9.2% rise in maximum oxygen consumption (the best single index of vigor, according to deVries), and a 7.2% increase in the strength of their 'arms. Perhaps more important, if more debatable, was deVries' conclusion from measuring the electrical activity of muscles. He equates these pulses with nervous tension and says that his exercisers cut tension...
...December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy in higher price tags on consumer items...
...Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole, the rise in the cost of living came out to 4.2%, the largest since the 8% increase of 1951 and far ahead of the 3.2% inflation of 1967. On the average, Americans paid $12.37 for the same goods and services that cost them $10 a decade...
...which began in 1910. To Zapata opportunists like the character in the Fuentes book were cabrones(s.o.b.'s). "As soon as they see a little chance, right away they want to get in on it, and they take off to brown-nose the next big shot on the rise," he told Francisco (Pancho) Villa, his more flamboyant and barbaric northern counterpart. Villa later retired from the field with a $250,000 government "grant." Zapata was cut down in an ambush set by men who thought that death was the best cure for incorruptibility...
...NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The company unwisely signed some "turnkey" contracts to supply complete plants at a fixed fee. Managers underestimated the devastating effects of inflation. They reckoned that construction costs would rise only 3% or 4% a year, but they have actually gone up about 12%. Result: losses on those jobs amounted to many millions of dollars last year. G.E. has a big backlog of $2 billion in orders for nuclear plants, but probably will not realize a profit on them for several years...