Word: baa
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...other star of the Crusader squad is hurdler, high-jumper, and broad-jumper Kevin O'Brien. O'Brien won his preliminary hurdles heat in the BAA's but lost out to Aggrey Aworl in his bid top make the finals. O'Brien's best high jump of the season has been 6 ft., 6 in., well below the range of the Crimson's Chris Pardee...
After every detail is weighed, the committee hands down its decision in a terse alphabetical shorthand. At Moody's, which pioneered the rating system back in 1909, the four top grades are Aaa, Aa, A and Baa, ranging from prime quality to faintly speculative. Standard & Poor's goes in for the upper case: AAA, AA, A and BBB. Dun & Bradstreet, which also owns Moody's but makes its own independent assessments, spells out its scale: prime, better good, good, medium good...
...importance of a good bond rating became especially clear last week when two separate Mississippi issues were put on the market. Bankers hardly nibbled at-the first one, a $24.6 million water-supply-district issue bearing a Baa rating. The rating made the real differ ence, Wall Streeters insisted, and not a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for investors to boycott the state. The next day two Mississippi school-improvement issues totaling $8,775,000 were snapped up by two New York syndicates. Moody's (Aa) and Standard & Poor...
Varsity two-miler Walt Hewlett was the first collegian and only the sixth American across the finish line in yesterday's 26-mile BAA Marathon. Nearly 400 runners entered the race. Hewlett's time of 2:32:44, only 12:45 off the winning pace of Belgium's Aurele Van den Driessche, was the best finish ever by a Harvard runner in the 63-year-old Patriots' Day classic...
Fortunately Awori's ankle was heavily taped to guard a braise suffered in a similar accident in last week's BAA games, so the junior ace incurred no new injury, other then some scrapes on his knees and elbows...