Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the blessings of the swift Chrysler agreement, they are hardly without inflationary costs. Council Chairman John T. Dunlop admitted that "a further round of auto price increases" is soon inevitable...
...fact, the Great Tax Drama was eerily reminiscent of an episode involving many of the President's same advisers last spring, when Shultz was attending an international bankers meeting in Paris. Just before leaving, he had drafted what he thought would be a swift transition from the collapsing Phase III to Phase IV. Suddenly Laird, then newly appointed, entered the scene, remarking for the first time in public that tighter controls were under consideration. The idea of a temporary freeze was especially favored by former Treasury Secretary John Connally−who last week just happened to hold his first...
...notable byproduct of Japan's swift rise to economic superpower status is a mildly bizarre cult of the price tag. Some of the best customers of art galleries on Madison Avenue and the Faubourg St. Honoré these days are dealers from Tokyo or Osaka, their pockets stuffed with yen, who are willing to pay astronomical sums for French impressionist paintings. Japanese buyers are equally conspicuous at the yearling auctions in Saratoga and Deauville, bidding handsomely for the best thoroughbreds. In fact, the Japanese seem to have supplanted the stereotype Texans as the world's most eager status...
...sprint victory, usually the culmination of the season for most teams, was just the beginning for Radcliffe. In June the 'Cliffe captured the national women's rowing title with a swift 3:15.4 clocking over 1000 meters...
...been ladling out money to the economy at a slower pace. The nation's money supply grew at a better than 10% annual rate last month, but lately the rate has slipped to 7%. By historic standards, that is still a rapid increase, but it is not swift enough to supply all the funds that borrowers of all kinds want to get their hands on. The Federal Reserve governors believe that borrowing must be discouraged in order to cool off an inflationary economy...