Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growth. Says Sinai: "The Fed has already tried to introduce a mild dose of tightening to slow the economy. But it just isn't working so far." Interest rates have been steadily climbing since March. The federal funds rate, which is the interest that banks charge one another on overnight loans, has increased from 6.5% to nearly 9.5% during the past nine months. Economists polled by TIME estimate that the prime lending rate will climb from its current 10.5% to 11% by June but will end the year at 10% after the economy slows down. As that happens, economists expect...
...disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack in 1977 and underwent a triple coronary bypass in 1983. Manners and habits changed overnight. Although he had a great appetite for high-cholesterol foods and no taste for exercise, he bought a machine that demands the efforts of cross-country skiing. Week by week, he worked himself into shape. En route he totally altered his diet and dropped 50 lbs. If he could overcome...
Following a storm of protest, Boston University President John Silber has agreed to loosen up on his parietal plan that includes a ban on all overnight guests of the opposite sex from the school's dormitories...
...controversial Silber agreed to allow five overnight visits by members of the same sex during the course of a semester. An outright ban would still be in force during the first two weeks of school and during exam periods...
Silber said that he would not give into demands that he end the ban entirely "because of parents, who are in a proportion of about 30 to 1 opposed to overnight visitors of the opposite...