Word: instrumentality
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...catch: the interest rates that really matter would have to decline for this formula to succeed. And as anyone looking for a mortgage will tell you, that hasn't happened. We're talking about two rates here. The first is the Treasury's 10-year bond, which is the instrument that dictates mortgage rates. Even after a tumble last week, the yield on the T bond was at 4.99%, vs. 4.91% at the start of the year; 30-year fixed-rate mortgages average 7.16%, higher than in March and down just a bit from 7.3% in January, rate-tracker...
...Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach's six solo suites, which were composed about 20 years after Stradivari put the finishing touches to the instrument...
...almost at once, Servais lost it. While he was crossing the Russian steppes by night, the cello fell off a sled. The horrified traveler immediately retraced his route. And there in the snow he found the instrument - intact, though only just. During the night, wolves had gnawed at the leather straps keeping shut its case, but they had not managed to open it. Roll over Stradivari...
...makes cases no Russian wolf would want to chew. Igor Pantelic, part Croat, part Dutch, was using glass fiber to repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients Yo-Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest, saying his work "is just plastic and stinking chemicals." But one aspect of what he does would have applied equally to Stradivari: "I have no one between me and the customer...
...company's first completely new model in a half-century, aims to change all that. "This is the first departure from their traditional customer base," says Don Brown, a motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims...