Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleas that it shovel in more, no matter how intense the demand for loans becomes, and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. The board has traditionally resisted that approach out of fear that an abrupt crackdown in an inflationary economy would cause interest rates to leap up so violently as to produce financial chaos. Miller has said that if the board had tried that strategy in 1974 the prime rate would have hit 20%, and "as a former businessman [he was chairman of Textron at the time] I can tell you that such a level of rates...
...Treasury aide initially told Carter that the increase would be the largest since 1921. Demonstrating his awesome?and to some advisers infuriating ?grasp of detail, the President quickly corrected him: there had been a one-point leap in 1933, and the 1921 boost the aide had been thinking of was actually a point and a quarter...
Another incident took place in 1960, shortly after John F. Kennedy's election to the presidency, while he was in Boston giving a press conference. Two intrepid WHRB reporters, at the conclusion of Kennedy's remarks, had the foresight to leap into the back of his cab, ignoring the protests of Secret Service men. The reporters fortunately had one of the early portable tape recorders with them. Kennedy was so taken aback by their pluck that he submitted to an interview all the way to the airport...
...rabid in its suspicions of other nations, had awakened to the possibilities of the real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union's expansionist designs on the one hand and its own economic backwardness on the other. To achieve this, Peking was willing to make a great leap outward. Not long ago, China's titular leader, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, traveled to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, making deals, offering Chinese friendship. Now it was Teng's turn...
Monday's 7-2 City Council vote to adopt a non-binding moratorium on construction indicates that the Council may join in the injunction suit. But non-binding moratoriums are a leap away from legal action and Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy is unsure of council support...