Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance over the next year, in part because of weak corporate demands for credit. The Federal Reserve Board, he contended, would continue to ease slightly its control of the money supply to slow down the tide of business bankruptcies and promote growth. He predicted that the prime rate would dip to 11% next year before turning...
Tuesday. Meant merely to dip into the book and ended up devouring it. But now it really is time for a break. That is to say, what Virginia Woolf shall I read tomorrow? -By Christopher Porterfield
...sides the building is garnished with masonry garlands. At first these garlands were to be metallic fluttering-in-the-wind affairs, but the city council vetoed them as frills far too inviting for pigeons. Portland Mayor Francis Ivancie, an enthusiastic booster of Graves' design, persuaded the council to dip into a building contingency fund for a $250,000 flattened and stylized version of the garlands...
...million metric tons) this year, the silo-busting harvests will only push low prices even lower. Since 1975, as farm expenses have nearly doubled (from $75.9 billion to $141.5 billion), net farm income has fallen. Profits, which declined from $32.7 billion in 1979 to $22.9 billion last year, may dip as low as $16 billion this year, making 1982 the third dismal annual showing in a row. Says Thomas Urban, president of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a Des Moines-based seed company: "There is nothing for the farmer to be feeling good about...
...interview system most Masters now see the recruitment and selection of tutors and Senior Common Room members as their strongest tool for shaping House life. Rather than financing their own teas and open houses. Masters now receive an average of $1000 from the College for entertainment, though many still dip occasionally into their own pockets to make ends meet. Two Masters say they have contributed up to $5000 of their own money toward food and alcohol bills...