Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geneva meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that the producers would cut oil prices (see following story). The news buoyed hopes that inflation would remain low in 1985. In addition, the Labor Department reported that the productivity of U.S. nonfarm workers--their output per hour worked--rose at an annual rate of 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 1984, a sharp rebound from the 1.1% decline of the previous three months. For 1984 as a whole, productivity increased 3.1%, far more than the average annual gain of 1% from 1973 through 1983. Investors welcomed the report because higher...
...widening gap means that foreign manufacturers are increasingly taking business and profits away from American companies. The Government also revealed that its index of leading economic indicators, a barometer of future economic growth, dipped .2% in December. Finally, the Labor Department said on Friday that the civilian unemployment rate rose to 7.4% in January from December's 7.2%, even though the number of Americans holding jobs reached a record 106.4 million. Economists were a little surprised at these downbeat statistics, but most are still confident that the economy has enough momentum to avoid a recession...
...excitement is not limited to the Big Board. Indeed, the highest flyers are smaller, fast-growing companies traded on the American Stock Exchange and the over-the-counter market. The Nasdaq (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) composite index of OTC stocks rose a record 17 days in a row before it fell last Friday. The previous mark: eight consecutive days in April 1983. OTC shares took a pounding in 1984, but now they are rebounding almost as fast. Amex's Market Value index has jumped 9.6% in 1985, and the Nasdaq has shot up 12.6%. In the past...
...wall by organizing a campaign against him, stirring up the Latin American countries and imposing an economic blockade on Cuba. "That's stupid," he exclaimed, "and it's a result of the howls of zealous anti-Communists in the U.S. who see red everywhere, though possibly something is only rose-colored or even white...
...inspiration. I once made a recording of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake turned me on to the voice in poetry. I once had an interesting psychedelic experience, without drugs, while reading Blake. It was an auditory hallucination of his voice pronouncing "the sunflower and the sick rose." Years later I began working with that to extrapolate tunes and melodies from those tones. I tried to reconstruct what it sounded like when Black orignally sand those words...