Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retailers, Christmas 1974 may be black rather than just blue. Department stores and retail chains normally count on ringing up about 25% of their annual sales in the weeks (four this year) between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they may be unable to do so this year. While retail sales rose 7% in dollars over the past year, that was equivalent to a drop in real terms once the impact of inflation was discounted. Several big chains, among them F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant, have suffered steep declines in third-quarter profits; at the biggest of them all, Sears, Roebuck, earnings...
...When the price of a five-pound bag rose 20 cents during one week, that's when I said I don't want to buy sugar any more," Koe said. "When there are people who make as much as 120 per cent profit on sugar I don't think I should...
...also all but terminated its economic aid to Chile. U.S. aid dropped from an average of $140 million a year prior to 1970 to $3 million between 1970 and 1973. At the same time U.S. military aid to Chile rose to $12.5 million in 1973 alone. International finance organizations also cut aid to Chile. The World Bank, headed by Robert McNamara, stopped all loans to Chile after 1971. It had given $270 million before 1971. The World Bank said that Chile was a "poor credit risk" and that it did not approve of Chile's expropriating foreign businesses without...
...classes are enlivened by guest appearances-an insurance agent, realtor, clergyman, marriage counselor and banker. But the students sometimes have firsthand experience of their own. During one lecture on abortions an 18-year-old girl rose to announce that she had had three abortions herself. She was invited to take over the discussion. The final outside expert is a lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward...
Contemporary Family Life is an extremely popular course; 360 of Park-rose's class of 450 seniors have signed up for it, and there is a waiting list. About 600 other high schools have written for Allen's 60-page course outline, and the state departments of education in Utah and California have expressed interest in including the course in statewide high school curriculums...