Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweet cola drinks. Sun Rise contains 46% chicory, a nutty-flavored herb long used in Europe and the U.S. South to "stretch" coffee, and at $2.88 per 8-oz. jar, it costs less than the company's regular instant brands. The Chicago-based Jewel Food chain reports brisk sales of its own $3.19-per-lb. cof-fee-and-chicory blend at stores in the Midwest...
...affect this week's Israeli election. In an eleven-week campaign characterized by dreary mudslinging, none of the three major contenders has enticed voters with an attractive image. Labor, headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad-the issue that forced Rabin to step down last...
...point, however, the economists were nearly unanimous: the pace of the nation's business upswing will continue to be fairly brisk, even without as much stimulation as Carter once proposed to give it. Most board members believe that real gross national product (discounted for inflation) could well expand at an annual rate of 7% in the second quarter before slowing somewhat. They foresee the economy rising by 5.8% to 6% from the fourth quarter of 1976 to the fourth quarter of this year...
Until now. This brisk, critical Life operates under a great handicap: Pritchett does not read Russian; literary and biographical sources come almost entirely from translations. But the author has the compensating virtues of insight and wit. Turgenev's oeuvre has long been accessible to an English-speaking audience; The Gentle Barbarian at last makes the neglected author as approachable as his work...
Overall, first-quarter profits should be up 16% over last year's period (see chart), paced mainly by brisk retail sales generally and strong auto sales in particular. The Big Three automakers will report first-quarter earnings this week, and they are expected to be good. For the year, profits should be up 20%, according to some projections. That is not as good as the 30% or so for 1976-but then nobody expected those gains to continue; last year's profits were rebounding from recession. The present level of profits still leaves many U.S. corporations awash...