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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of 17 million in a land area smaller than Holland, its foreign trade amounted to $17.9 billion in 1977, more than the $16.4 billion that China herself generated in the same year. Business with the U.S. was particularly good-around $7 billion this year, more than the total of America's trade with the Soviet Union and China put together...
...observing, the researchers finally made the crucial measurement. They employed a new, extremely sensitive computerized clocking device capable of detecting orbital timing changes of only one fifty-millionth of a second. This superaccurate timer revealed that in those four years the orbital period of the objects had decreased a total of four ten-thousandths of a second. That was exactly on the Einsteinian mark. Said Taylor: "We don't claim to have detected gravitational waves themselves, but simply proved they exist...
This year, real gross national product -total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-probably rose only 3.8%. But consumer prices jumped so rapidly that in December they are likely to average 9.5% higher than at the end of last year. Result: the President, who began the year trying to prod the economy to faster growth, shifted gradually to a tight-budget policy and proclaimed wage-price guidelines that stop just short of mandatory controls. When even those measures failed to stop inflation and the sickening plunge of the dollar, President Carter on Nov. 1 welcomed a sharp increase...
...this by buying or selling its own currency on international markets. If it needs money to do this kind of buying, it can borrow from a new fund. To set up the fund, each member country will contribute about 20% of its gold and dollar reserves, or a total of up to $32 billion. The fund will be denominated not in marks, francs or dollars but in the new European Currency Units-ecus...
...began in 1976, free-agent proceedings that allowed Rose to put himself on the market have been bemoaned by owners as the potential ruination of the game. The owners claimed free agents would destroy baseball because the rich teams would buy up all the good players. Since 1976, a total of 65 free agents have signed contracts worth upwards of $60 million. Some teams have benefited, those that bid not only well but wisely. Spending some $10 million on free agents, the New York Yankees have received good value from the likes of Slugger Reggie Jackson, Pitcher Catfish Hunter...