Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier, as the Pontiff entered St. Peter's Basilica, borne on a swaying chair, a choir of 10,000 voices performed. TV arc lights played across the colors of African robes and Asian pantaloons in the packed congregation. Paul sought no assistance as he rose from the papal throne and lifted the host and chalice. But his hands trembled visibly and he walked to the altar with a slow, painful shuffle caused by his arthritis. To symbolize his years, Paul personally gave Communion to 80 people...
...despite the lackluster Crimson play through the first 35 minutes, the Huskies only scored once before halftime. That score came 12 minutes into the half, when Husky center forward Doreen Rose took a pass in front of the Crimson goal and slid the ball past goalie Ellen Seidler...
...base shrunk year by year, demands on city services and the costs of those services rose steadily. Moreover, 48 per cent of Boston's land, including colleges, hospitals, cultural institutions, state property, and federal property, was, and still is tax exempt. Attempts to cover the spiralling costs by raising the tax rate merely resulted in the further shrinkage of the tax base as white collar professionals fled the city for the lower property tax levies of the suburbs. The state legislature, controlled by the suddenly powerful combination of suburbs and the western districts, refused, and continues to refuse, to help...
...year, the economy has paused during the summer. The leading indicators that are supposed to foretell the future course of business have been down slightly for the past three months in a row. In August, industrial production declined for the first time since January, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.1%; joblessness among blacks equaled its post-World War II high. All that has stirred talk of lasting slowdown in the economy-or even a new recession...
...supply. This year the money supply has been expanding at a rate that some economists consider inflationary, and it has been gyrating from month to month and even week to week. In the past three weeks, the money supply first grew by $3 billion, then dropped $800 million, then rose another $2 billion (to a seasonally adjusted daily average of $331.6 billion). In an effort to ward off inflationary pressures, the Federal Reserve will have to try to hold down the growth, and that will push interest rates up further-how far and fast is unclear...