Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article on the investments of those moneybags [April 2] may interest some, but unfortunately has little relevance to most of us. Those affluent few who can afford to invest in vineyards, professional football teams or Reno condominium developments can also afford to lose tens of thousands of dollars, while the small investor can be wiped out by the merest fluctuation of the market...
...skies cleared, at least 59 people had been killed and nearly a thousand injured, 200 of them critically. About 8,000 were homeless. With property damage estimated at close to $400 million, President Carter declared the stricken valley a major disaster area, making the survivors eligible for low-interest federal loans...
LICHTBLAU: We are not going to run out of oil, but we may run out of suppliers who are willing to give us more, even if it is available. Oil can be denied either for political reasons or because a country simply has no economic interest in increasing production. That is the danger...
...campus stringers for the major news media were finding lean fare in student activism, and so they started writing about how college kids those days held proms and swilled alcohol and joined fraternities and Republican clubs. And liked it. Undergraduate interest in Economics at Harvard was picking up about then, as was undergraduate interest in joining the corporate fold. There had been days of rage and even years of outrageous behavior, but kids would, after all, be kids. The watchers called it the New Mood, but it was really the old mood, which was no particular mood...
...This rally is part of the education process," Graham said later. "We have to convince students that it is in their interest to be involved. I'd be remiss in my job if I didn't try to make people aware of the fact that we are all going down together," Graham added...