Word: oomph
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...discount rate that it charges on loans to member banks, from 6.5% to 6%. Several major U.S. banks then lowered the prime rate that they charge preferred corporate customers, from 8.5% to 8%. The Fed's action was the third such cut this year, evidently designed to pump more oomph back into the sagging U.S. economy. Word that the rate cut was coming may have curbed investor nervousness. On the other hand, if the announcement was supposed to lead investors thundering back into the market, it failed...
...Mary Cassatt, not George Balanchine but Madonna, The A-Team and Sidney Sheldon. The respectable pieties are correct: sure, America is the land of freedom and the land of opportunity. But it is perhaps more lovably the land of great tap dancing and terrific special effects, the land of oomph...
...Belmonte, spotting Blair was easy. "Certain players catch your eye. They have the type of oomph you like to see in a goaltender. I saw him against Richmond Hill in November around Thanksgiving...
...Pleased with the way we bounced back," Crimson Coach Bill Cleary said. "That's the big thing is that we played well, I'm looking for signs to see that oomph coming back and I saw that the last period last night and then here...
...upstairs looking over us," said a relieved Crimson Coach Bill Cleary. "Hey, we were fortunate. I don't know what it is. We just didn't have that oomph...