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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 8, 1977
GM's Profits Set a Record |
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General Motors Corp. yesterday said 1976 net earnings were a record $2.9 billion, a 132 per cent gain over 1975 and the highest for any industrial corporation in 1976.GM's record profits, dollar sales and earnings per share - topped by a record fourth-quarter performance - surpassed marks set in 1973.Analysts expect even higher profits for the world's largest auto company this year.GM chairman Thomas A. Murphy cautioned, however, that its profit reports...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 30, 1977
AN AMERICAN DREAM DIES IN ROCKVILLE |
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THEY CONCEIVED AND DESIGNED the Rockville Mall fifteen years ago according to the tail-finned 1950s blueprint of the American Dream, but something went terribly wrong. It almost reminds you of that major in Vietnam who stood watching the velvety black napalm clouds coming off some ruins, turned to a correspondent and said: "We had to destroy the town in order to save it."It all made sense to the major and for a minute it made sense to the correspondent. Of course!...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 30, 1977
Seven Man Board of Fed System |
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Here are brief sketches of the seven present members of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve Systef: Arthur F. Burns Burns, 73, will step down as chairman of Jan. 31, but may remain on the board as an ordinary governor. Born in Stanislau, Austria, the silverhaired former professor in a distinguished economist who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Eisenhower administration, from 1953 to 1956, and served later as economic...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 29, 1977
LOANS ANNOUNCED |
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The Inter-American Development Bank has its approval of $23 million in loans and grants to Ecuador, Costa Rica and Barbados. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 6, 1977
Surinam's Voters Opt for Stability, Spurn Racial Politics |
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The results of Surinam's first election since independence two years ago show that the people of the South American country have chosen stability and moderate policies over appeals to radicalism and racial demagoguery.The Oct. 31 general election returned incumbent Premier Henck Arron's progressive coalition with the same 22 to 17 edge in Parliament over the opposition led by veteran politician Jaggernath Lachmon.Surinam, a former Dutch colony on the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 19, 1977
Reggie! Reggie! Reggie! Yanks Champs |
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Reg-gie, Reg-gie, Reg-gie," say the signs in right field in Yankee Stadium.Tonight they were right.Reggie Jackson, the man who kept New York on tenterhooks since the day he was bought at modern auction for $3 million, saw three strikes thrown over the plate tonight and smashed all of them for home runs to bring the World Championship to the New York Yankees.Jackson's three homers - a two-run shot to put the Yanks ahead of the Los Angles Dodgers, 4-3, the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 1, 1977
Ag School: The Newest 'In' Campus |
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Agriculture colleges, long the source of endless cracks about aggies and hayseeds, have become one of the places to be on campus with women and city kids swelling their ranks.While interest in other fields is declining or leveling off, agriculture schools are riding the crest of a boom that has seen their enrollments triple since 1963, a trend experts expect to continue into the mid 1980s.Suprisingly, many of the "new aggies" are city and suburban dwellers like...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 7, 1977
7th Sons Bet the Mortgage |
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This is the day, 7-7-77, when hunch, headline or dateline players go to the bank and withdraw their savings of the last 100 years in order to try to get rich.The digit 7 is going to take a tremendous pounding in gambling circles during this 24-hour period at the nation's race tracks, in casinos and particularly, in state lotteries.Locally, Daytime Dreams and Hand Spin are about to enjoy unaccustomed popularity in Bowie's daily-double wagering. They form the 7-7...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 30, 1977
Carter's Compromise to Save Sadat |
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Quickly following the predictable deadlock between Egypt and Israel over Arab Palestine, a compromise is being cooked up by President Carter for hard selling on his trip abroad a compromise demanding greater concessions than Israel has yet been willing to offer.The essence of the compromise: Hold forth to more than 1 million Palestinian Arabs the prospect of gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops and a nearly independent state with voluntary political and military links to Jordan.This...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 3, 1977
The American League won't take up the Red Sox sal |
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The American League won't take up the Red Sox sale today after all. Trustees requested postponement because A-T-O, Inc., of Ohio, parent of Rawlings Sportings Goods, is trying for an injunction in Boston probate court, claiming its $18.75 million bid should have been accepted instead of the considerably lower, heavily bank-loaned offer accepted by the group including Tom Yawkey's widow, also a trustee . . . A new group to push for baseball's return to...
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