Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly dropped by half. That was easily explained-and foreseen-because the 9.2% spurt in the first quarter was so great that it could not be sustained. Sure enough, it fell to 4.5% in the second quarter. Main reason: businessmen early in the year had been on a buying spree to replenish their recession-depleted inventories, and once they got those stockpiles up to par, they cooled their purchasing...
Whatever course businessmen eventually follow, the worst fears of production bottlenecks and inflationary material shortages seem farfetched at present. Consumers have not launched a spending spree so frenetic that it could lead to an overheated economy by the end of next year. Still, the possibility does exist, and until corporations begin to open their purses in earnest, spending plans will continue to attract anxious attention...
...Starkweather murder spree, which inspired the 1974 movie Badlands, began in January 1958, in Lincoln, Neb. For no apparent reason, the 19-year-old bandy-legged high school dropout shot to death Caril's mother and stepfather and clubbed to death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned...
...sounds of spring this year, few are more reassuring to businessmen and election-minded politicians than the persistent jangle of the nation's cash registers. From Maine to Southern California, Americans seem to have shucked their recession-bred caution and set off on a buying binge. The spending spree is swelling sales of almost everything from cars and clothing to houses and appliances, and it has become the biggest single booster behind the rapidly recovering U.S. economy...
...sensational terrorist trial that West Germany has known. The daughter of a museum director and once a prominent left-wing journalist, Meinhof, 41, already stood convicted of attempted murder in a 1970 prison raid that freed the gang's other namesake, Arsonist Andreas Baader, and began their paramilitary spree. One year ago she, Baader, now 33, and two other gang members-Jan-Carl Raspe, 31, and Gudrun Ensslin, 33-went on trial for a list of charges that included five counts of murder and 54 of attempted murder. Other Baader-Meinhof members are among 220 terrorists also in West...