Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern states fell into that category. After the passage of the act, black registration in the South rose from 1 million to 3.5 million, and black officeholders from 72 to 1,600. But the act expires on Aug. 6. In dispute was whether to extend it and for how long...
...battle rose and rages, but through...
...Real disposable personal income-the broadest measure of the U.S.'s standard of living-rose at an adjusted annual rate of $133 per capita in the second quarter, to an average of $2,908 a year for every man, woman and child. That brought it back near the 1973 peak of $2,952. Most of the gain came from tax rebates and special Social Security bonuses; the rest resulted from longer working hours and higher wages-which are no longer being totally swallowed by inflation...
...some feel that the rate will average 8%. One reason: the American consumer, having been given more money through tax cuts, Social Security increases and higher wages, is responding in classic Keynesian fashion by helping spend the nation out of recession. Personal-consumption expenditures in the second quarter rose at an annual rate of 6.1%, compared with a 13.9% decline in the last three months...
...much more can be said, lest the author's outrageous unlikelihoods become unglued. The dust jacket offers useful clues: a volcano erupting; a young woman, evidently Clara, holding a pistol and a rose; a young man, evidently Niles, holding a false face; and a rather sinister older woman. Readers who follow these tantalizations to the end will be richly rewarded-with everything save the real name of the author...