Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Industrial production, after eight consecutive months of decline, rose in June at an annual rate of 4.9%. The heightened tempo was especially noticeable in consumer goods, textile and chemical industries...
...statistics are improving. The average American life span reached a record-high 71.9 years in 1974, up from 71.3 in 1973. According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the expected lifetime rose to 68.1 years for men and to 75.8 for women - the largest annual increases in two decades...
...Vatican history. It was held on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, presided over by the man who a dozen years ago this day had ascended Peter's chair and assumed Paul's name. The litany over, the new priests-Africans, Asians, Oceanians, Europeans and Americans-rose two by two and approached the throne for the personal blessing of Pope Paul...
...pressed individuals and companies in the U.S. went to court last year to declare themselves bankrupt. This year the total may reach a record 250,000. Nowhere is the business of going bust booming more than it is in that erstwhile capital of easy living, Los Angeles. Personal bankruptcies rose by more than 18% in the L.A. area last year, and they are already up another 48% in 1975. So it is no real surprise that the busiest bankruptcy lawyer in the nation is headquartered in Los Angeles. He is Hugh Slate, 58, of Slate & Leoni, which handles...
There is some evidence that recession is still capable of slowing inflation by making it hard for businessmen to sell goods at high prices. In the U.S., while unemployment rose to 34-year highs, the rate of consumer price inflation dropped from 12.2% last December to 5% from March through May. It now seems to take a much deeper recession than in past decades to break a price spiral. There are three reasons for this...