Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Furious Clip. That was no small feat, given the diversity of action as the Olympics wound up. Ski races were going off moments after speed-skating contests ended, and hockey games followed each other at a furious clip. Traffic jams congealed around the competition sites, and some fans retreated to their hotels to watch the Games on TV. At night, hotel bars became the scene of pick-up Olympics. "This is mad," said one American girl at the Holiday Inn. "I might as well have stayed at a singles bar in New York...
...contest, the Eagles' Wilford Morrison swarmed the Crimson defense with 31 markers and Bob Carrington clicked for 27. Cyrus Booker netted 20 points and Carey shot 9-15 from the floor to supply the Crimson's fireworks. This season, Carey has been scoring at a 17 point-per-game clip while Banks has carded a 13.8 average and scoured the boards for close to 14 rebounds a game...
That was painfully evident in the game stats. Harvard hit the mark only every third time around, finishing the game with a poor 54-per-cent clip from the floor...
While Syracuse was popping them in at a 50-per-cent clip, the Crimson cagers were scrapping and scraping with a horrendous shooting percentage of only 26 per cent from the field...
Such forecasts may sound Cassandra-like. The thrift institutions took in money at a record clip early this year and still have plenty to lend: they hold more than $405 billion in assets. Treasury borrowing in the fourth quarter is supposed to decline from the current quarter, though that is not certain. Nonetheless, the threat of continued disintermediation is pushing savings institutions into taking protective action. Already many are cutting back on mortgage commitments for the rest of this year; in the past few weeks several have raised mortgage Interest rates by about a quarter of a percent...