Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday's activities, reminiscent of the highly successful community-interest campaigns which placed recent swimming powerhouses Tennessee and Alabama on the aquatic map, are part of second-year coach Joe Bernal's effort to cultivate student interest in his attempt to create a national caliber swimming program at Harvard...
...temple's strong advocates within the Guyanese government was Viola Burnham, the Prime Minister's wife. According to diplomats in Georgetown, Guyanese officials seemed to find it was in their best interest politically to offer assistance to the cult and even contribute financially. Medicine, building materials, U.S. currency and guns were imported for the commune with little interference from local customs officials...
...Federal Reserve Board's monetary policy is turning tighter in an effort to restrain credit and the money supply. To signal its intentions, the board controls the interest rate for Fed funds, which are reserves that banks lend each other. That rate has risen to a high 10%. In addition, the nation's basic money supply, or M.I, dropped $1.9 billion to $359.5 billion during the week ending...
...still do not have a feel for how much the public will buy in a season of inflation-pinched pocket books and recession fears. Though some detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival in the high-priced end of the cosmetics business: "The thing I predict with absolute certainty for this Christmas is that the people...
...study suggests improving the mortgage market by setting the usury rate at the market lending rate, providing state subsidies for lower interest rates, publishing mortgage terms and lending criteria for all banks, involving the community in the loan process, and strengthening anti-discrimination laws and the use of affirmative action program by banks...