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...most the Government has had to pay for short-term money since January. Recently the Treasury was forced to pay more than 8.5% on four-year notes, or barely .5 percentage points under the mid-1974 peak of 9%. Private borrowers, too, are beginning to feel a money pinch. Having settled down to a two-year low of 7% in early June, the prime rate charged for credit-worthy corporate customers has inched back up to 7¾% at most commercial banks...
...real stuff," and as a result some critics had trouble talking about it. One might call them the cookbook critics--their theory is that the secret's in the ingredients. Just as the studios make movies like salad, adding a sprinkle of "love interest," a dash of "violence," a pinch of "fun," so the critics think of "plot" or "action" or "climax" as separate components to be inserted in a movie at will. "Bad language," for example, is a poor allocation, no matter how it's used...
...ledger, some cities have managed to avoid trouble. Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty has pared the city's work force from 7,200 to 5,400 in five years, partly through attrition. St. Louis' 13,000 employees wisely decided to help the city out of its pinch by not pushing for wage increases this year...
...Evans, another young right fielder, has plumped lately, but has an excellent arm and hits well for power when he's on top of things. Center fielder Rick Miller, also a striping, would be a starter on virtually any other club: Yaz is available to play left in a pinch. Depth like this puts splinters in the trousers of young ambitious players and some have mumbled to reporters that they'd just as soon be put out to fairer pastures in another city. And a trade or two, for reasons we shall see, should be high on the agenda. Some...
...strong growth. They will have to calculate where the supplies are likely to come from, what exploration, research and development investments will be required to produce them, what conservation steps and recycling programs may be necessary to stretch supplies, and what materials might be used as substitutes in a pinch. The tough question: Just who is to decide...