Word: paredes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week he shook up conservatives again by making his bank the first sizable one to cut the prime rate-the basic interest charge on loans to businesses with the best credit ratings-from 8% to 7½. Jokingly, he said that he pared the prime partly because "our bank...
But Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose...
Out of the Hole. At Krupp, Vogelsang has shown what can be accomplished when an outsider slips into a family firm and snips the ties that bind it to traditions. Taking charge in 1968, he quickly changed the paternalistic policy of never laying off a "Kruppianer" and never closing down...