Word: sub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Where sub shops grace every hill...
Tanaka's regime was already in desperate trouble even before the disclosures. Japan's spectacular economic growth rate has dropped from 11% in 1972 to an estimated sub-zero figure this year. The country's inflation of more than 20% a year is the worst in the industrialized world. Last summer the dominant L.D.P. barely won a two-seat victory in elections for the upper house of the Diet, and Tanaka's personal popularity sank in the polls from a record high of 62% when he took office to a record low of 16% this fall...
Beyond all these legalistic cost/benefit analyses, ITT had another line to sell, one that spoke of ideology, not dollars and cents. ITT noted in its memos on Chile, which are cited in the Senate Multi-National Sub-Committee report, that "we must decide whether we, ourselves, are to return to fundamental principles on which this country [the U.S.] was founded, but also whether we are to stand firm for democracy for the sake of those friends of ours in Latin America who have based their hopes and aspirations on our strength. This is not a time to deny...
...Swan. The theater the Phantom haunts is no longer an opera house but a rock palace on the order of the old Fillmore. Phoenix (Jessica Harper), the woman he hopelessly loves, is now an aspiring pop singer. The organ the Phantom used to pound away on down in the sub-subbasement has become an electronic synthesizer...
...undulations as if on a roller coaster, has yet to feel the worst of the downturn in car sales. Though auto layoffs have driven joblessness to 11.8% in the city, auto workers who have at least one year's seniority will qualify for supplemental unemployment benefits, or SUB, tacked on to unemployment compensation; the total can go as high as 95% of take-home pay for a 40-hour work week. But SUB funds, supplied by companies as part of the union contract, are not infinite and could expire if big layoffs drag...