Word: mid-march
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...were to venture down to Newell Boathouse these mid-March Jays, you'd find Harvard's oarsmen less concerned with national titles than with destroying teammates in that fearsome spring ritual known as seat-racing. But once heavyweight coach Harry Parker chooses his eight, you can bet the boathouse mortgage that the Crimson will be among the fastest crews on the river...
...influence," Murdoch said last week. Pause. "I hope for good." He acknowledges that he had long banked on being able to drive out the larger rival Daily News, which seems unlikely. Now he accepts that "you might get the Post scratchily in the black but never rich on it." Mid-March is his deadline to sell or fold the Post, unless he can get the Government order reversed. What are his chances? A tough and crafty gambler who loves a fight, Murdoch guesses, "Less than even in Congress. Better than even in the courts...
While the questions linger, the Crimson will set its sights on another possible Garden trip in mid-March for the ECAC Championship Harvard has done that five time since...
...weakened dollar has already forced up interest rates by reigniting more inflation fears. Investors are now demanding a higher return on fixed-income investments. From mid-March to the end of April, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds jumped from 7.5% to 8.5%, a remarkably swift rise. By the end of last week, yields had surged to 8.9%, the highest level in 15 months. The Federal Reserve Board allowed rates to climb in order to prop up the dollar. Higher interest rates bolster the U.S. currency by making dollar-denominated investments more attractive to foreign investors...
Jerry Falwell, the Lynchburg, Va., Baptist Fundamentalist who assumed the post of PTL chairman in mid-March, last week reviewed the lavish compensation ( that has been made in the past to Bakker and his fellow PTL officials. Falwell's reaction: "outrageous" and "indefensible." Among the disbursements were $350,000 in 1986 and $270,000 in the first quarter of 1987 to Richard Dortch, 55, the new president of PTL and Bakker's former chief aide; $360,000 last year and $250,000 as of March to David Taggart, 29, another Bakker aide; $160,000 in 1986 and $50,000 this...