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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that attitude, it was no surprise that on Harvard's first overtime play, speedy Cat Ferrante streaked down the right side of the field, drawing the goalie out to cut down the angle while passing off to St. Louis. With the net wide open, St. Louis tapped the ball in to give Harvard the winning advantage with only 25 seconds gone...
...will no longer concern itself with trying to manipulate interest rates, its traditional device for controlling the growth of money, and will just stop creating so many dollars instead. The Fed regulates the level of money in the economy by buying or selling Government securities through its so-called Open Market Desk at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. When the bank buys the securities, it pumps money into the economy; when it sells them, money is drawn out, and interest rates rise. The Fed is now saying that, within broad limits, interest rates can go where they will because...
Continued pressure gave Harvard other chances as Smith and Kronfeld headers went wide, and a Smith shot bounced off the goalie and sat two feet in front of an open goal before Dartmouth fullback Rich Monteith cleared it to the side...
...suffocating presence in his life. His exploration avoids morbidly picking at childhood scars; he aims to heal, not dredge up more torment. (His retrospective is infused with realism, tenderness untainted by excessive romaticism, and sadness devoid of self-pity.) Wolff knew when to close the door he pried open so forcefully in his preface...
...corrolas of May flowers had spread open, and now their stigmas waved about, lewdly coated with sick secretions. The pollen which fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...