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...inflation news sent tremors of alarm through homes, offices and executive suites, where memories of the inflation battle of 1981-82 still linger. Those fears were quickly rekindled when major banks, led by Chase Manhattan, boosted their prime lending rate from 11% to 11.5%, the second increase in two weeks. At week's end the Federal Reserve confirmed the quickening trend by raising its discount rate, which is the rate it charges banks for short-term loans, from 6.5% to 7%. Anticipating the effects that $ rising rates will have on business and the economy, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged...
Though you're leaving your job, Graham, we know you will linger...
...having to linger a little longer to watch this quality cast perform is no real punishment at all. And by all counts, you are guaranteed to walk out of the theater just as blithely as you came...
...rewards are magnified. Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
There is nothing wrong with remembering a fallen President, particularly one who has commanded such high regard in our national pantheon, but the timing and focus of these remembrances is nothing less than morbid, with a sick tendency to linger upon the assassination of the man rather than the accomplishments of his life...