Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which offices changed hands. In Colorado, Republican Congressman William Armstrong denied Democrat Floyd Haskell a second term in the Senate. Compared with the vigorous Armstrong, the courtly, soft-spoken Haskell sounded unconvincing when he vowed to fight inflation and cut taxes. Similar issues in Nevada buried Lieutenant Governor Robert Rose, who tried to keep the governorship in Democratic hands after Incumbent Mike O'Callaghan retires at year's end. Republican Attorney General Robert List handily defeated Rose, again by calling for tax cuts...
...speculators who had been dumping dollars in the conviction that Washington would do nothing much to stop the slide scrambled to buy back bucks. In chaotic trading on Wednesday, the dollar rose 5% against the Japanese yen, 7% against the West German mark and 7.5% against the Swiss franc. Gold, which speculators buy when the dollar is sick and sell when they think it may recover, fell a startling $23 an ounce by the end of the week...
...with record speed; the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 35 points Wednesday, its largest one-day rise in history. On the commodity markets, prices for future delivery of cattle, soybeans and cotton briefly fell, partly in the expectation that inflation really would slow down. Oddest of all, bond prices rose sharply, and long-term interest rates actually fell. Apparent reason: a dollar recovery and less inflation might bring interest rates down in the long run, however high the Federal Reserve may jack them up over the next few months...
...million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost the papers as much as $150 million in advertising and circulation revenues...
...competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...