Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlets, with their Gay Nineties decor, have been popping up all over the country. Last year alone Wendy's opened 502 units, bringing the total to 1,400. One result: the company's earnings surged 56%, to $23.2 million, on sales of $783 million. Even so, analysts say, average sales advances in Wendy's shops have slowed in recent months, and they expect that deceleration to continue. Still, Wendy's intends to stick with its limited line of hamburgers and chili, though some industry experts believe that this will make the company especially vulnerable...
...after the mid-1970s recession. The kickbacks allegedly worked this way: manufacturers quoted a high official wholesale price but then made illicit payments to their U.S. importers that enabled them to undercut the retail price of American-made TVs by as much as $100. Customs officials and Government lawyers say that virtually all Japanese manufacturers except Sony are implicated...
...seem odd, ironic and even unbelievable to anybody paying those pumped-up OPEC oil prices, but the Saudis feel they are the suckers of th world In their own sardonic way, they even joke about it. They say that they have piped out their black gold but the paper money they have accumulated in return for it has suffered from the decline of the dollar. They are worried about the shakiness of the international monetary system and of some Western banks in which they have put their money...
...restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from printing an article because it risks injuring...
...center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s...