Word: spurted
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Skeptics, though, believe that the growth spurt will be temporary. They point out that much of the GNP rise in August and September came from brisk car sales, which jumped ahead because of special low-interest loans offered by the auto companies. After those deals expired, car sales dropped 14.6% in October. Overall consumer spending fell .9% that month, the sharpest decline in 25 years. Unless retailers have a big Christmas, GNP growth may falter again in the fourth quarter. COMPANIES Breaking Up Is Harder...
...been the case all season, the Crimson’s base cadence erased that early spurt...
...varsity lightweights, two seats were not enough. With spectators at the finish urging the Crimson to the line, Harvard blitzed Yale with a quick four-seat spurt in the final 500 and crossed the line seven seats in front of the Bulldogs. The Crimson crossed in 5:49.0, Yale followed in 5:51.4, and Princeton finished...
When Americans faced a previous spurt in oil prices in 1979, the villains of the moment were the BIG OIL companies, as TIME noted in a cover story...
...Wall Street trader could make a killing if he got advance notice of the Commerce Department's quarterly estimate of the country's economic growth. On the day it is released, that statistic can send the financial markets into a sharp upward or downward spurt. Thus Government officials became alarmed last July and then again in September when an accurate GNP estimate was circulating among traders the day before its official release. In an effort to find the source of the leak, the Commerce Department has called in the FBI, which last week was giving voluntary lie-detector tests...