Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George N. Rose Pueblo, Colo...
...moment of panic when cuts rose and profits fell, Steve--not being very experienced in business-decided to cut our unusually high wages...
...automakers say that the $200 to $600 checks they have been offering to buyers of new cars since mid-January have saved the decline at the dealerships from turning into a disaster. Yet the 1975 models are still having a bumpy sales ride, to say the least. Buyer interest rose smartly in the last ten days of January, the first period in which all of the automakers had their rebate programs in effect. But then sales plunged again...
...cars they sold in late January. They took some comfort in the fact that the most recent sales were "only" 5% below the same period in 1974, when the Arab oil embargo was scaring buyers away. On that year-to-year basis, General Motors' sales rose 2.4% and Chrysler's were up 4.8%, while Ford's were down 8.3% and American Motors' were...
Bluff Caller. Evans, 46, rose through provincial papers to become editor of the Northern Echo in 1961, was named managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1966 and editor in 1967. Short and slight, he still speaks with flat Yorkshire vowels and spends his few hours out of the Sunday Times office toiling almost obsessively at squash, skiing, Ping Pong and a book on photojournalism. He also serves as an occasional panelist on a television quiz show titled, aptly enough, Call My Bluff. Evans has long argued that British journalism should end its preoccupation with the elegant expression of opinion...