Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the 153-member Democratic Platform Committee rose to welcome him. Kennedy, sensing their readiness to hear him, gave the moment his best effort. Perched on the edge of his chair and leaning into the audience, his voice booming out, his hand slicing back and forth, he gave his views on domestic and world issues. He finished to a prolonged ovation. Intoxicated for the moment by the look and the sound of him, many members seemed almost eager to embrace the dangers of his candidacy...
...upturn that began just about a year ago seems to be picking up speed. For example, the Government reported last week that real gross national product-output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-rose 8.5% in the first quarter, rather than 7.5% as first estimated. Corporate profits before taxes jumped 45% over the first quarter of 1975, to a near-record annual rate of $140.8 billion...
...Consumer Price Index in April rose at an annual rate of 4.9%-a bit more than in previous months but a far cry from the pace of 1974 and 1975. The behavior of interest rates indicates that businessmen and lenders believe the improvement is real and will continue. In that environment, businesses have less need to borrow: their costs are rising less rapidly, while their profits and cash flow are up sharply. So the demand does not exist to support high interest rates, even if lenders tried to get them...
...that happens, the event would mark a sour end to the career of Bunky Knudsen, 63, one of the most star-crossed executives in the U.S. The son of a onetime president of General Motors, Bunky went to work for dad's company and rose to executive vice president. Passed over for the presidency of G.M., he did the unheard-of and jumped to become president of Ford-only to lose out in a power struggle with Lee Iacocca, the current president. Undaunted, Bunky in 1971 took the wheel of White Motor and got off to a promising start...
Overall, exports, which account for almost a fourth of all German production, remain strong. In March they rose 30% over a year earlier, to $12.9 billion. But imports, made cheaper by the rising value of the mark, went up even more...