Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more and more Americans turn on their faucets only to have heavily chlorinated and sometimes foaming water spill into their glasses, the sales of bottled water soar. In the past five years, home consumption has increased by more than 50%, and is still rising by a snappy 10% per year. But no overall set of governmental standards or regulations has emerged to ensure that bottled water is not simply tap water in disguise, or something no better...
...milder than Javits' bill. But business opposition and the immense complexity of the subject could well forestall passage of any bill this year. 1972 could be a different matter. Few legislators would want to vote against safer pensions in an election year, and popular interest might well soar as rapidly as it did for Medicare. The most compelling case for reform was summed up by Senator Javits: "It is a rare thing to find a major American institution-private pension plans -built upon human disappointment. We should be moved to act with determination to make that institution deliver upon...
...fact they have more money than ever (though their dollars are worth less than before). They are increasing their savings at a spectacular annual rate of $64 billion. If they could be tempted to part with some of that cash, retail sales and the stock market could soar. Businessmen have trimmed the overly large payrolls that they accumulated during the 1960s, and the nation could be ready for a surge in productivity, rising from last year's abnormally low gain of .9% to 4% or 5% this year and next. Administration spokesmen insist that the U.S. is poised to enter...
...accept Burns' idea of a wage-price review board; Shultz persuaded him to reject it openly. It was Shultz who argued, over the objections of Paul McCracken's Council of Economic Advisers, that the Administration should base its 1971 policies on the expectation that the gross national product would soar from $974 billion to $1,065 billion. He confidently forecast that the target would be hit if Burns' Federal Reserve pumped out enough money, which it certainly has. For his part, Burns forecast a more realistic $1,055 billion, and the Commerce Department now projects that the year's figure...
...Sudan in midsummer is an oven of a land where temperatures soar to 120° day after day and tempers tend to get even hotter. Since he took power 26 months ago, Major General Jaafar Numeiry, 41, leader of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, has faced eight attempted coups, most of them during the summer months. Last week members of the army elite that governs this equatorial nation of 15 million staged the most confusing hot-weather spectacular since it won independence from Britain 15 years ago. In the space of a few days, rebellious officers toppled the government, imprisoned...