Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank and the Carter enterprise in Plains. Loans to build a new warehouse and to construct a peanut sheller at one time totaled about $1 million. On two occasions, the bank reduced the interest rates on these loans, eventually to a rate of 1½ percentage points above the prime rate. At the time of the last rate reduction on the construction loan, the prime rate, which banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, was 7%. Said Lance: "There were good and sufficient banking reasons for those decisions, and any implication or statement that they were not in that regard...
Immunity. Some studies have shown a marked reduction in white blood cell response, the body's prime defense against infection, in marijuana smokers...
Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Steve Martin and four of the original Saturday Night Live "Not for Prime Time Players" are on the list, along with such luminaries as actress Jane Fonda, Sens. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54, and broadcaster Walter Cronkite...
Despite the Shah's earlier pledge to Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, 62, head of the nation's new civilian government, that he would take a "holiday" outside the country, the 59-year-old monarch had not budged. But perhaps it was a matter of precise timing. In Washington late last week, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the Shah would indeed leave soon on an extended vacation. It was a sound idea, added Vance, "and we concur with that decision." Wary of appearing to meddle in Iran's crisis, Washington issued discreet instructions to Ambassador William...
...unlikely that the business would have taken great interest in Bok, anyhow. His voice is a warm bass baritone. His songs-some original, some traditional -are sober, a little lofty on occasion, and limited in appeal by theme as well as sound. Among Bok's prime efforts are Seal Djiril's Hymn and Peter Kagan and the Wind, a 15-minute narrative ballad about a fisherman who is, one might say, married to a fishwife: "She was a seal, you know/ Everyone knew that .../ But nobody would...