Word: year-to-year
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...fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole, the rise in the cost of living came out to 4.2%, the largest since the 8% increase of 1951 and far ahead of the 3.2% inflation...
...Faculty miraculously manages to keep its deficit below $500,000 this year, it will be in no trouble. The Faculty has built a reserve fund from past surpluses, and this "departmental balance" of $500,000 is expressly intended to ease year-to-year shortages. If the deficit exceeds the relatively meager limits of the departmental balance, however, Dean Ford will probably ask the Corporation treasurer for a loan. Presumably, if the deficits continued, the Faculty would have to decide either to trim its costs or raise its tuition...
...takes a big chunk of money to run the colossus that is Harvard University--$135 million last year. The Federal government chips in about a third of the total, but the University must provide the rest from year-to-year alumni gifts, foundation grants, student tuition, and the yearly income from the famed and mysterious billion dollar endowment...
...part of the introduction to a soon-to-be-published paperback series based on year-to-year excerpts from TIME...
Over from Ireland. During the first eleven months of 1965, 2,200,000 additional people have found employment (or have been sought out for it), the largest year-to-year increase since the Korean War buildup. Even so, the November work week was the longest (41.4 hours) in more than two decades, and average overtime (3.8 hours) came close to a record. Naturally, pay has risen with demand: workers in manufacturing earned $2.64 an hour in November v. $2.55 a year ago. Reports the National Industrial Conference Board...