Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interest rates continued to slide almost as rapidly as they went up last winter and early spring. Major banks reduced their prime rate on business loans to 13%, far below the unheard-of peak of 20% reached in April. Fundamentally, that is a note of cheer: the decline will make it easier for consumers to finance purchases of houses and cars and for businesses to build new plants. But not much easier: the rates are still higher than any reached before 1979. And the speed and depth of the drop shows how abruptly the high rates choked off the business...
...pool, badminton and tennis courts, movie theaters, restaurants, soda fountains, batting cages, a zoo, an art gallery, a circus, aquarium, science museum, hundreds of restrooms, two always in sight, everything in the tender charge of women trained in first aid and Montessori, no uniforms, their only style warmth and cheer...
...doctor measured my height and announced that I was shrinking. 'Oh that's too bad! I can't afford to lose an inch, or even half and inch!' 'Cheer up,' he grinned. 'All your friends are shrinking...
...happy party at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, an occasion for champagne and congratulatory speeches. The top brass of CBS, led by Founder and Chairman William Paley, 79, had gathered to cheer the TV net work's narrow victory over rival ABC and its return to the top of the prime-time ratings chart in the just concluded season...
Franklin listened patiently for about four seconds and then played one of his more obnoxious tapes--a bronx-cheer rendition of the Michigan fight song--into the receiver and over...