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...materials such as cotton and coal actually dropped a bit for the third straight month. Interest rates were sliding too: major banks last week cut the prime rate (on loans to their best business customers) by half a point, to 161%. That is five points below the peak last winter...
Steinberg and friends were South Florida drug dealers. Big ones. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, at Steinberg's peak in 1978 his group imported one-sixth of all marijuana entering the country. Steinberg accepts the DEA'S estimates of his business ($100 million annual revenues on 500,000 Ibs. of marijuana) but not his exalted rank. Says he: "There are hundreds of outfits like mine. Certainly there are scores...
...slashed plant capacity, in part because he believes that tire sales in the foreseeable future will not return to the levels set during the early 1970s. Reasons: radials wear much longer than bias tires, and auto production is unlikely to reach its prior peak levels...
...strong, very, very, tough." "He's the kind of guy who takes the sport very seriously and tries very hard," notes team captain Adam Dixon. "In a sport in which you can never be sure of what's ahead of you he never assumes that he's reached his peak." If Johnson does poorly, he recognizes it and makes determined efforts to lower his times...
...goal margins. In big games the Crimson have not shown the necessary poise, however, losing twice to Brown earlier in the season after a well-played first half. Sunday's game could prove different. Well-rested after having taken a two-week lay-off, the aquamen are at the peak of their game...