Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ocean's waves. Once the coral barriers are breached, the islands that they surround are no longer protected from the pounding of the open sea. Because the reefs are vital to the spawning and feeding of much undersea life, the process can also destroy fertile fishing grounds almost overnight...
Last month, however, the Board decided to count as part of demand deposits the dollars that U.S. banks borrow overnight from their European branches. On that basis, the Board concludes that the money supply has actually been growing at a 3% annual rate-maybe. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, questions whether the Board has been making seasonal adjustments properly; he suspects that the money supply early this summer may have been growing more slowly than even the old figures would indicate. McCracken said recently to a group of banking students...
...sponsors did not even know that she was coming until she was in the air over the North Atlantic, but no matter. Diminutive Bernadette Devlin, at 22 the youngest member of Britain's House of Commons and a notable firebrand in Northern Ireland's recent disorders, overnight became the biggest sensation to arrive in the U.S. from the British Isles since the Beatles and Twiggy...
After a year of seasoning with the Jacksonville Mets, Seaver was summoned to New York in 1967. He became an overnight sensation. He pitched 18 complete games, and won 16 while chalking up 170 strikeouts. Of his 13-losses, seven were by one run. He was named the National League's Rookie of the Year...
...campus building last March to protest his school's investment ties with South Africa. Henry's plans as a trustee, however, are reassuringly moderate. "I will listen," he said, "to the students and the deans and their views before making decisions. But I do not anticipate any overnight changes." Maine's Steven Hughes, a 26-year-old political-science major, sees his role in much the same way as his 14 older colleagues, whose average age is 57. "My interests won't be much different," he says...