Word: breather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulls, it turned out, were only taking a breather. On Thursday the interest rate on federal funds, which are reserves that banks lend to one another overnight, fell as low as 9.5% from an average of 10.27% the day before. The financial markets took this drop as a sign that the Federal Reserve Board, which influences the funds rate through the amount of money it supplies the banking system, was easing monetary policy and would allow the cost of credit to fall. That plus the good news about oil caused bond prices to surge and the stock market to stampede...
Perhaps the growing inability of couples to conceive is a message from the powers above that we have more than obeyed the biblical commandment to go forth and multiply. Maybe it is time to take a breather...
Herschbach said before the trip that the new and different skill might provide a welcome breather from the normal crew practice and perhaps exercise different muscle groups as well...
With the hard-fought opening round of the New England championships behind it and more tough competition looming in the next round, nine days from now at Brown, the Harvard water polo team decided to take a breather last night...
During this extended time-out, Harvard could let its own technical experts and others elsewhere reassess the plant's feasibility. Such a breather would probably produce a fresher idea of how to run the plant cleanly and efficiently...