Word: annually
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...glow enveloped the 55-ft. spruce, Boston Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television. Said Conductor Margaret Hillis to an earnest cast, as an all-volunteer, 100-piece orchestra (aged twelve...
...more guarded about the hostages' fate than the President. At the annual ceremony to light the Christmas tree on the Ellipse behind the White House, Carter bowed to a request by the hostages' families: except for a bright star of hope at the top, he left the 24-ft. spruce dark as a somber "vigil of remembrance." Said Carter: "Our American hostages have not yet come home. But most of our prayers have been answered. They have stayed in touch with their families. So far as we know, they are safe, and their lives have been spared...
Jackson's $500,000-plus a year pale in comparison with Winfield's estimated $1.3 million annual stipend. Included in the deal is a $1 million signing bonus, as well as complicated provisions tying extra compensation to the inflation rate and the price of Yankees tickets...
...Board members differed on the timing and severity of a 1981 decline, but agreed that a contraction is now all but unavoidable. Yet they believed that the 1981 slump will not be as sharp as this year's, when the GNP in the second quarter declined at an annual rate of 9.6%. Republican Conservative Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, predicted that the economy will show about 3.9% real growth on an annual basis for the last three months of 1980 and then increase at a 4% yearly rate during the first...
Walter Heller, a former economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, warned that the economy is already weakening, and will wind up registering around 2% in real annual growth during the fourth quarter of 1980. Heller predicted that overall economic activity during the first three months of 1981 will decline approximately 1.5% and remain essentially stagnant for the following quarter...