Word: nail
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Bond traders did no such nail biting. They bid up prices all week, in a mood of sunny optimism that Clinton's program really will reduce deficits. In the bond market's calculus, a lower deficit equals less government borrowing equals higher bond prices equals lower interest rates (which move in the opposite direction). For the moment, that became a self-fulfilling prophecy: the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds fell to barely more than 7%, the lowest since such bonds were first issued in 1977. By Friday those prospects had begun to cheer stock traders too. Monday -- who knows...
...force ((presumably bombing)) against the Serbs in Kosovo and in Serbia proper." In all, it was a flurry of foreign policy activity that might be expected from a President preparing for another four years in office rather than one beginning his final three weeks. Bush is obviously moving to nail down his place in history as a foreign policy mover and shaker before handing his job over to Bill Clinton. "There's a lot of unfinished business," the President said at one point during his journey. "I would not be telling you the truth if I didn...
...made the turnaround from nail to hammer. Sullivan wants to do that, badly. So what kind of advice does O'Brien have for his cross-town counterpart...
Bill Clinton's election may put the final nail in the coffin of the ROTC controversy, which has raged at Harvard for more than 20 years in the form of ultimatums, angry protests and unsuccessful compromises...
Overseeing this ambitious effort was production director Brian O'Leary, who admits, "It's definitely been a nail-biting experience. But I've always been good at creating order out of chaos." The soft-spoken Harvard business school graduate, who spends his free time these days rewiring his suburban New Jersey house, joined TIME in 1983 as assistant operations manager for our international editions. After a three-year assignment setting up and running our production plant in Singapore, and a successful stint as ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's first production director, O'Leary happily returned to TIME two years ago to assume...