Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case was revived after more than a quarter-century by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger, which last year ran a series of investigative stories on Beckwith's earlier trials. That prompted Hinds County district attorney Ed Peters and assistant D.A. Bobby DeLaughter to re-examine the 1964 proceedings. From then on, as DeLaughter puts it, evidence began "falling into our laps...
...important audience. Days after reading the 82-page report at Camp David, George Bush was still talking about it. "I ask you to read half of it," said the President during an interview with TIME in the Oval Office. "If you can't stomach half of it, read a quarter...
...gross national product will shrink at an annual rate of 2.5%, after adjusting for inflation, in the fourth quarter, and show smaller declines in the first half of next year, according to TIME's panel. (The economy grew at an anemic 1.4% rate in the July-September quarter.) The downturn would meet the official definition of a recession, which is at least two straight quarters of falling GNP. The panel said the U.S. appeared likely to resume slow growth by mid-1991 as the Federal Reserve Board lowers interest rates to stimulate business activity. That scenario would amount...
...public, Administration officials shy away from the R word -- recession, that is -- when talking about the economy. But now they privately acknowledge that the nation is in a serious downturn. Bush advisers say the economy will show negative growth for the fourth quarter at an annualized rate of nearly 3%. Says a senior analyst: "Chances are better than fifty-fifty that the first quarter of 1991 will be negative too." If that proves correct, the economic contraction would fit the generally accepted definition of a recession. Despite the bad news, the White House does not plan to change its wait...
...expected to pass through the White House this month. And the halls are well decked to receive them, with 47 Christmas trees, 54,000 lights and 50 wreaths. Pastry impresario Hans Raffert will produce 120,000 cakes and cookies; gardener Irv Williams has festooned the North Portico with a quarter-mile of Lycopodium garland and gathered more than 300 poinsettias for inside. Forty-four groups of bell ringers, carolers and other musicians are heading for Washington...