Word: outputted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...during February, economists will soon be revising upward their predictions for 1976-and Democratic campaigners will find what they had expected to be their sharpest election issue blunted. As the year opened, Government and private economists were almost unanimously predicting a rise of 6% to 6.5% in national output of goods and services, discounted for inflation. But 1976 has got off to a faster start than that; real G.N.P. in the first quarter could easily rise at an annual rate of 7% or more, v. 4.9% in the last three months of 1975. The recovery "is stronger than we expected...
...advantage the economic issue in the election, the figures back him up. Last week the Government reported that its index of leading indicators rose a very strong 2.2% in January. That was the largest jump since last July. The index, which consists of twelve yardsticks of future demand and output (examples: new orders, building permits, average work week), has proved accurate on the whole since it was revised early in 1975. It began turning up last spring, accurately foreshadowing the end of the recession...
...Cadillacs line the streets, two new shopping centers have risen outside town and a resort community has opened in the rolling country beyond. And that may be just the start of the boom, which could extend to many other communities. President Ford has called for a doubling of coal output...
...lies west of the Mississippi, the industry still concentrates heavily on working the old veins of Appalachia and the Midwest. They are still rich enough to support what has become an industry of corporate giants. Some 1,200 companies work small mines, but they account for only 40% of output. The other 60% comes from 15 companies, led by Peabody Coal of St. Louis and Consolidation Coal of Pittsburgh. Only three of the 15-Pittston (No. 5), North American (No. 10) and Westmoreland (No. 13)-are independent; the rest are subsidiaries of bigger companies. Six are controlled by oil companies...
Right now, however, only 109 million tons of coal a year are being produced in the West-little more than a sixth of national output. One reason is that opening a surface mine takes between two and four years. Beyond that normal delay, four harder-to-solve difficulties-three of which again involve a clash between ecology and economy -have held back Western coal development. The four...