Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...booklets no longer refer to operators as she and managers as he. Businessmen are increasingly scouting for women management trainees, and women are rising fast in the nation's graduate business schools. Between 1971 and 1975, the percentage of women in the incoming business class rose from 4% to 24% at Pennsylvania's Wharton, 5% to 19% at Stanford, and 6% to 33% at Columbia...
During 1975, auto-insurance premiums rose an average 20.7%, and some big further increases are coming. Allstate early in December announced that it would seek increases averaging 12.5%; New Jersey has approved an 18.3% increase in auto-insurance premiums. In November the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 8.7%, no better than the bad October figure, though many economists had expected a drop. One reason the rate stayed high: larger-than-expected boosts in auto-insurance premiums...
...America," says Bob Fluor. "That may be $3 billion in equipment orders. It certainly won't hurt our balance of payments." The company's own books are not hurting, either. Revenues soared 65%, to a record $1.3 billion in the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, and profits rose 43% to $47 million...
...Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said of a certain novel: a way "to kill time for those who like it better dead...
...major contracts coming up next year, including negotiations in four major industries: autos, trucking, electrical equipment and rubber. Workers' purchasing power has eroded over the past two years because wage boosts have not kept pace with price hikes. Between January 1973 and July 1975, the consumer price index rose 27.1%, but average hourly earnings of workers in nonagricultural jobs increased only...