Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate as high as 6¼%, instead of pumping cash into banks to stop the rise. Other short-term rates are going up too. Chase Manhattan last week led the way for other major banks in lifting the prime rate charged to their best corporate customers by a quarter of a point, to 7¼%, the highest in a bit more than a year. Three-month U.S. Treasury bills, which traded at 5.57% during the first week this month, climbed last week to about...
This year Eckstein expects that the G.N.P. will grow 4.8%, consumer prices will rise 6.5%, profits after taxes will expand 13% and unemployment will decline to 6.9% in the fourth quarter. Between now and 1980, there will be a great increase in the number of heads of families aged 25 to 44 who earn more than $25,000, and this will lead to a surge in sales of houses, furnishings, cars and other fairly costly goods. A happy forecast - and it is even safer to anticipate that DRI will continue to grow faster than most of the indicators that...
...through the opening quarter, it was. Sloppy play and fumbles dominated, as the team gave the impression they would have preferred being at home watching the game on television like everybody else...
...tragic luck would have it, Davenport suffered a fractured vertebra at the base of his neck last week against Columbia while plunging in for Harvard's first touchdown in the second quarter. He is now out for the season...
September 19. 1977--The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-yard rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport--who, all things considered--like the fact that this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...