Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour bus drive from Princeton to Cambridge can rally drag. Who likes Jersey Turnpike fumes, Big Apple traffic, and Connecticut speed-traps? But returning Sunday afternoon from another first-place finish at last weekend's Ivy League Tournament in Princeton, the Harvard women's soccer team didn't mind the ride...
...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...