Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase of 1,215%. Reason: again, clerical error. A major component of the engine for the F-14A fighter zoomed 442%, from $35,189 to $190,855. Reason: the price of titanium rose and a new supplier produced a relatively small number of the parts, boosting the unit price...
...sent to the Soviet embassy to check out a protest from Andropov that "Hungarian hooligans" had besieged the diplomatic compound. In the growing tension, the Nagy government feared that the Soviets might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged, he found everything strangely quiet. He banged on the heavy oak door and was finally received by a tall, handsome man in tailor-made evening clothes. It was Ambassador Andropov. Standing behind him, as if on dress parade, was the entire embassy...
...eateries by the time WR. Grace & Co. bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will be added next year...
...other company has gained more from the rage for Mexican dining than Louisville-based Chi-Chi's (fiscal 1982 sales: $35.8 million), the growth champion of Latin chains. The five-year-old firm opened its first unit in a converted A & P supermarket in Minneapolis, and now has 73 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. The red-hot expansion pushed Chi Chi's profits to $4.5 million in its latest fiscal year, nearly double the level of the previous year...
...different story. As the nation helplessly watched authorities try to catch the murderer of Black children in Atlanta. Sliwa joined the various psychics, bloodhound-owners and other publicity-seekers who publicly announced they would lend a hand to the investigators. Never mind that the Angels were not an investigative unit: they would start a chapter in Atlanta. The incident was especially distasteful because Atlanta residents, almost numb with grief, had already formed citizen patrol groups...