Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June increase in the Consumer Price Index was a shade smaller than the May rise, but it was still a full 1%, enough to push inflation for the first half of 1979 to a compound annual rate of 13.2%, more than twice the pace that prevailed when Carter was elected in November...
...whimsy making the medical rounds has a pharmaceutical company petitioning the Food and Drug Administration for approval of a new pain reliever. The compound, to be packaged in red, white and blue capsules, will be sold with a label that is indisputably true: PROVED EFFECTIVE IN ONE-THIRD OF ALL CASES AND ABSOLUTELY SAFE. The nostrum's name: Placebo...
...National Trust, a volunteer organization that administers 100 gardens and some 200 historic buildings. This year, using funds collected from its 816,000 members, from legacies and from small admission fees, the National Trust completed the restoration of three beautiful historic gardens: Ham House, an 18-acre compound on the banks of the Thames on the outskirts of London; Erd-dig, a 13-acre retreat in North Wales; and Claremont, a 50-acre spread near Esher, 40 minutes from Charing Cross...
...inequitable and a bureaucratic nightmare. Even during World War II, when the U.S. was united as never before or since, gasoline rationing was marked by corruption, favoritism and loopholes. Today, rationing would be enforced by the same Department of Energy folks who have done so much to confuse and compound the gasoline mess. Says Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "The more I'm in the Government, the more market-oriented I become. No bureaucrats with pins at the Department of Energy, trying to figure out how much gasoline each gas station in the country should...
...consistently underrated both the kind of genre films he appeared in and his low-keyed, naturalistic acting technique. Not by those who, intent on forcing all of life through political metaphors, deplored his rightist politics. It was ordinary moviegoers who sensed the authenticity of the man-that compound of morality, short temper, self-humor and sheer physical energy. They knew that though he had never fired a gun in anger, he had found other ways to live up to his image...