Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became more evident. The Federal Reserve has been trying to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply by raising interest rates to near record levels, but it is still unclear whether the policy is succeeding. Money supply jumped $2.1 billion last week, wiping out more than a third of a big drop registered the week before. That means interest rates will probably have to move even higher than the 10.75% that banks now charge on "prime" loans to their best business customers?possibly above the record 12% rate of 1974. And when money growth finally does slow, bankers...
Still, Norwegians will hardly go without. Unemployment is a slim 1.3%; government officials figure that it may creep up during the austerity period, but only to 2%. Oil production doubled this year, to 102 million bbl., or about one-third as much as Mexico produces, and next year it is expected to rise by 35%. The government has decided to award seven of its remaining North Sea concessions between December and February, several months ahead of schedule...
Propagated through 317 Saturday Evening Post covers and countless other illustrations, this consoling fiction made Rockwell seem a reticent monument of Americanism. In 1976, more than 10,000 spectators and 2,000 participants turned out for a Rockwell parade during the Bicentennial in Stockbridge, where he lived with his third wife Molly Punderson; for an hour and a half, float after float passed by, each bearing tableaux representing his most popular illustrations?the Four Freedoms, the Boy Scouts, the doctor solemnly examining a girl's broken doll, the returning G.I. Corny, certainly; but no American artist had ever received such...
...afternoon, Swiss time. Conservative Columnist William Buckley knows just what he will be doing: starting his third novel. The author of Saving the Queen and Stained Glass is going to Rougemont, Switzerland, and has set aside five weeks to churn out another thriller. Après-ski and pre-harpsichord practice, Buckley, 52, plans to produce 1,500 words a day. Why the regimen? "The 20th century notion that you should stare at the ceiling until the afflatus [inspiration] hits you is self-indulgent," harrumphs Buckley, who does admit to slight concern about having no plot...
Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...