Word: steepest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH prices are in their steepest climb in 18 years, Washington's economic seers have repeatedly insisted, as Nixon Adviser Herbert Stein said last week, that "we have turned a corner." Now, at last, there is confirmation of sorts in a group of economic telltales known as the "leading" indicators...
With those unspoken words, he left his room, went outside, and began to jog slowly up the steep hill, back to Route One. He looked at the base of the mountain (it was not a mountain, but he liked to call it that). The base was the steepest. It was, the boy thought, almost straight up for about thirty feet. There was nothing to hold onto--there was only the wet slippery clay, which three days before, in Southern California, had killed 11 people in a mudslide. The boy looked at this bank of clay, and then he began...
...June and July, the cost of living made its steepest two-month climb in eleven years. Going up by one-half of 1% each month, the consumer price index reached 121.5 (using the figure of 100 for the base period 1957-59). On that scale, the average family now pays $12.15 for the same items that cost...
...ones. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. On the highway-where they have to make 50 decisions per mile-they would flunk most elementary tests. Thirty states do not require periodic auto inspection, and those states tend to have the steepest death rates (the highest fatality rate is in California, the lowest in Connecticut...
...reality. Politicians and Ph.D.'s wrangled earnestly over varying techniques to fight the fire, but few could disregard the smoke signals. After seven years of immobility, the wholesale price index has spurted 4.1% in the past year, last month alone rose seven-tenths of 1 %, the steepest February increase since the precipitate price escalation early in the Korean War. Industrial production was up 9% over the preceding February; personal incomes grew 8% to a record annual rate of $556 billion...