Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
...Hale Stores Inc., parent of Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman-Marcus, showed an 8.1% increase, to $292 million. Bloomingdale's is a part of Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores, Inc., the nation's largest department-store chain?and Federated turned in one of the best showings of all. Its sales rose 13.4%, to $883 million, in the third quarter, and its profits leaped 46%, to $34 million...
...Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 8.7% in October, a clear backsliding from the September pace of 6.2%. But the biggest jumps were in meat and dairy products, which are not likely to rise so sharply in coming months. Indeed, Department of Agriculture economists reckon that in 1976 food prices overall should go up by 5%, compared with a 9% climb expected this year...
...Personal income climbed $12.7 billion in October, to an annual rate of just under $1.3 trillion. The increase was the smallest in three months. Even so, earnings of workers rose just about as much as prices between September and October, so the buying power of wage earners did not suffer...
...Housing starts in October rose 15% from the month before, to an annual rate of 1,458,000. But permits for new construction did not go up that rapidly, so the rate of housing starts might fall back again...