Word: charts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend 9% and, at the current rate of increase, will be doling out 12%, or $1 trillion, annually by the end of the century. The cost of hospital care over the past ten years has risen more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living (see chart). Carter called the spiraling hospital cost "outrageous" and warned that it was a significant factor in inflation, but one that could be controlled. And Carter argued that a failure to contain inflation would endanger "the basic structure of our society...
...matters was Washington's decision not to take drastic action concerning the sophisticated F-14 fighter planes and Phoenix missiles that belong to Iran. The U.S. Government decided it was more prudent to trust the Khomeini forces with preventing the planes from falling into Soviet hands than to chart a treacherous course of blowing up the planes or seeking to fly them to a safe destination. Pentagon officials said that the critical electronic guidance systems the Soviets would like to confiscate and study have been safely transplanted to secure locations. But the radar dishes along Iran's northern...
...question is to what extent unemployment figures chart real economic distress. They do not do this well at present, in large part because families in which both spouses work are now the norm rather than the exception; if one loses his or her job, the family can still get along. The commission wants to devise a "hardship index" that would count many employed people who labor at low-wage jobs and exclude the unemployed whose families still have sizable incomes...
...important issues, dropping the original every-thing-at-once strategy that had spread him far too thin and exasperated Congress. As U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young put it, "In the early days Carter felt that he could force Congress and history and everything else to work according to his flow chart. He has learned that it doesn't happen that...
Promo men work record stores too, but it is radio that gets their best shot. Meanwhile, back in the three-story Sunset Strip offices of RSO, Coury is on the phone, eagerly reading the new charts ?delivered to his office before they go to press?and placing calls to the various trades about the new positions of RSO products. If, as RSO National Sales Manager Mitch Huffman says, "the charts are Coury's bible," then the boss is certainly not averse to applying for a revised standard version. He'll bluster, cajole, even strongarm an editor for a more...