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...rely on commercial or corporate borrowers have profited handsomely. One reason is that consumer loans are typically made at interest rates that do not fluctuate. At times of rising interest rates, profits of banks are squeezed by their portfolios' low-yielding loans. Fixed-rate loans have helped to drag down profits at Bank-America, for example, which has some 1,100 branches spread throughout the nation's most populous state. On the other hand, the sky-high rates have devastated the corporate bond market, where major businesses traditionally turn for financing, and forced companies to try to scrape...
...Susan Alexander to Frank's Citizen Kane. Bernd can't accept that Frank is voracious for sexual experience with any consenting adult male; Frank feels restricted by Bernd's desire for a placid sex life and regular mealtimes. A blowup is inevitable. Coming home from a drag ball, they have one last fight. Frank strides into his classroom dressed as an Indian princess, with earrings, headband, beads, bra and tattered sari. "Good morning, children," he says airily...
...same stumbling blocks and face the same problems in compromising that the constitution committee did in drawing up the original proposal. Perhaps these committees can, using the reaction to the initial proposal as a guideling, avoid some of the problems. Otherwise, fashioning a new student government could drag on interminably...
Reagan had rejected a plan recommended by Jimmy Carter to shuttle the new MX missiles among thousands of shelters in a vast "drag strip" in Utah and Nevada. The most heated grilling of Weinberger involved the Administration's alternative plan: temporarily housing the first 36 of the 100 proposed MX missiles in "superhardened" Titan II missile silos. Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Defense Secretary began his testimony by trying to clarify the "window of vulnerability," a term used to describe the period in which American land-based missiles could possibly be wiped out by a surprise...
...their way to the Southeast Expressway by using Appleton. Many weekday afternoons since then, the once-tranquil street has looked like some thing out of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, and during the rest of the day, when the wide, one-way street is lightly traveled, like a drag strip. Next spring, things should begin to change for the citizens along Appleton Street. For one city block on the four-block-long street, Appleton will be the site of a ground-level experiment that could presage a new era in unscrambling the agonizing mesh of big-city residential traffic...