Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banks last week raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 12.5% to 13%. That helped boost the dollar to record highs against the British pound and the Canadian dollar. The U.S. currency also hit a peak for the year vs. the Japanese yen, and a seven-year high against the Swiss franc. Many economists expect further hikes in interest rates and a continued strong dollar...
Branson maintains that Laker failed because he bought too many planes too soon and then was battered by the sinking value of the pound against the dollar. A big fleet is not Branson's problem. As of last week Virgin Atlantic consisted of one airplane, a Boeing Branson with a model of his Virgin aircraft...
Wreatler Paul Wideman '83 won the pre-Olympic trials meet in the 165 pound weight class and is now the top seed in the final rounds. Jeff Clark '88, who will enter Harvard in next year's Freshman class, is in the finals in Greco-Roman wrestling...
...breakfast one day that she wanted to be part of the Olympics. After Mrs. Nix persuaded AT&T to waive its requirement that runners be ten years old or older, she and her daughter set about raising the money. "We baked Easter cakes, Mother's Day cakes, pound cakes and sheet cakes," Nancy's mother recalls. Nancy made some of her own crafts and set about selling them to her neighbors. When her turn came, she took off so fast that she passed up the press truck and had to be called back. "I felt nervous," she said...
About 50 students, led by former Law Record Editor Louis J. Hoffman, staged a sit-in in Pound Hall, defying Vorenberg's demands that they disperse and forcing him to relocate a faculty meeting...