Word: choking
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...unmistakable sign that the board is easing its recent tightfisted monetary policy, and will let the nation's money supply grow enough at least to hit its own announced target of 5% to 7½ a year. That, in turn, should ease fears that high interest rates will choke off the recovery: last week Southwest Bank of St. Louis cut its prime rate on business loans from...
...looked to them like a loser in 1944, and the Communists, with their grass-roots appeal, like winners. Later, during the early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible to say, as one of them did, that the Foreign Service officers "planned to slowly choke to death and destroy the government of the Republic of China and build up the Chinese Communists for postwar success...
...strong rise in the past five months (see chart). Yet the figures are breeding no euphoria; instead, many bankers, businessmen and economists see danger signals ahead. Their big worry is that a combination of resurging inflation, tight money, climbing interest rates, and inadequate Government stimulus to the economy will choke off the recovery, possibly as early as the middle of next year, before it has done much to bring down the nation's high unemployment rate, and perhaps even tip the economy into a new slump...
...thing to do is stay on the case--buy Dodger pennants from the Souvenir shop across from Fenway Park, call the Globe sports recording at 2 a.m. to get the scores you won't find in the morning paper, and always remember, as the Sox stroke and the Dodgers choke, that baseball is as stupid game of no consequences...
...accounts, bonds and other forms of investment at a level equal to about 15% of the nation's gross national product. That rate of capital formation is one of the lowest in the industrialized world. Unless it is increased, many experts say, a shortage of investment funds will choke the still anemic housing industry, squeeze thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses out of the credit market and eventually abort the recovery-leaving the U.S. with insufficient plant capacity and an intolerably high level of unemployment. One of the gloomiest prognosticators, New York Stock Exchange Economist William Freund, calculates...