Word: fretfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fret not, die-hard Harvard hockey fans. The Crimson's two games at Yale and Princeton this weekend, will give it a chance to climb the ranks...
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...didn't fret. My friends and I were overwhelmed by the idea of being in the same room with copious amounts of alcohol. We didn't think twice about striking up a conversation with the three large male residents of "Hell" who wanted to know how we had found out about the party (since none of us knew any of them). We liberally filled our cups to the brim with some homemade Bloody Marys, into which one of our thoughtful hosts had poured salsa...
Boeing shares that view with McDonnell Douglas, which has assembled 35 MD-80 jetliners at a Shanghai plant that it has run with Chinese partners since 1985. (China purchased 30 of the planes, and TWA bought the remaining five.) Nor does McDonnell Douglas fret about losing its technical edge. "We're developing a partner," says Peter Chapman, who heads the company's China operations. "The more technology we can transfer to them to help supply us, the better...
However, those who fret about a shortage say interest rates already seem to be rising faster than economic conditions would demand. Such economists note that so far in 1994, long-term rates -- those that companies pay to finance / new plants or that apply to home mortgages -- have jumped as much as 2 percentage points in the U.S. and other industrial countries. That kind of spurt normally reflects lenders' fears of inflation, but inflation has been dormant all year, thanks at least partly to the Federal Reserve's vigilance. "What's going on with interest rates is more a scarcity...