Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proposals adopted ranged from the one that advocated a Zero Population Growth resource policy" to a plan that suggested the restriction of the "explosive growth of consumption and environmental degradation...
...darkening. Seven months ago, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which embraces all the leading industrial nations, was predicting that its members would post a small average increase in real gross national product during 1975. A few months ago it scaled down its projection to zero growth; now it is estimating a decline of 1.5%. To avert an even worse slide, some nations that have made headway in combatting rapid price rises are, like the U.S., moving gingerly to restimulate their economies. The situation in some of the most important nations...
...payments deficit from $425 million in 1973 to $1.8 billion today; some experts believe that it will hit $5 billion by year's end. Though the government still predicts a 4% gain in Canada's output of goods and services for the year, some economists believe that zero growth is more likely. The jobless rate, at present 6.8%, is expected to climb to between 8% and 10%. Inflation, which has just edged down to 9.6% after two years of ranging above 10%, is expected to subside only gradually. Reason: hefty wage settlements being won by unions...
Perhaps trying closer to home, the student will find that the Student Employment Office (SEO) is not even holding summer job signups for Buildings and Grounds jobs. There will be only "zero to ten" jobs with B&G this summer, rather than last year's 65, Charles O. Honnet, SEO's assistant director said this week...
...plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...