Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signs of impending disaster had appeared all through 1928 and 1929. The speculative fever of the Roaring Twenties had infected rich and poor alike, and vast numbers of people were dangerously overextended. Credit was absurdly easy to obtain, and most brokerages required only 10% cash for stocks bought on "margin...
While both Dean Rosovsky and Phyllis Keller, the Equal Opportunity Employment Officer for FAS, categorically deny that any discrimination occurred, the Isaac case has stirred considerable controversy since 1971 when a departmental student-faculty committee recommended Isaac for tenure by a margin of one vote...
Forman's time was her best ever on the Franklin Park course by a significant margin, and she said afterwards, "It's hard to run my best time and come in fifth...
...Wall Street, however, about all that nervous traders could make of the Fed's complex announcement was that interest rates would be rising. That is especially bad news for investors who hold shares of stock bought on margin with money borrowed from brokers at floating rates of interest. Wary of just how high those rates might climb, margin holders along with smaller investors began selling in earnest on Monday, pushing the Dow down 13.57 points...
...rate (the interest charged the most credit-worthy corporate customers) from 13.5%, already a record, to a new peak of 14.5%. Since quarter-point raises are the norm, the effect of the full-point boost in the prime was electric. Not only did it push the interest charged to margin investors up close to 16%, making stock ownership on borrowed money extremely expensive, but it had a sharp psychological effect on the market. That was quickly compounded when Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher, told a New Orleans press conference that the money markets were in such turmoil that banks might...