Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exciting races of the day were won by Brown. Large Chip Ennis thundered past steady but slow Doug Hardin in the last 150 yards of the two mile...
Brown may bother the Crimson in a few events, but by and large the meet should be an easy early season effort. The Brownies do have potential troublemakers in Win Anakwa (sprints), Tim Fahey (broad jump and triple jump), Jim Wich (middle distance) and Chip Ennis (two mile...
...chairman the week before. A more logical explanation was that this time the Fed, which is often a leader in money matters, was simply a follower. It was reacting to an earlier drop from 6% to 51% in the prime rate-the interest rate that commercial banks charge blue-chip customers. The Board's decision was less a tribute to Lyndon than an acknowledgment of sorts to Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, the first banker to lower the prime rate, and the man who held fast to his decision despite opposition from competitors...
...Peterson castigated Government efforts to end that deficit as a "piecemeal attack" that so far is doing the nation more harm than good. Such business curbs as voluntary restraint on overseas spending by private companies and the interest-equalization tax that penalizes foreign borrowers in U.S. markets, Peterson warned, "chip away at what makes U.S. and world enterprises profitable and productive. The whole show," he said, "is reminiscent of a silent-motion-picture comedian trying to wrap an octopus in a blanket. Every time he gets one tentacle covered, another pops...
...Jolly Fat People. Members who have lost ten pounds receive "graduation" brooches or tie clips after 16 weeks in the program, thereafter earn a little diamond chip for every additional ten pounds lost. Since friendships develop at the meetings, members often see each other between sessions, urge each other on with the catch phrase "See you lighter...