Word: ran
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...gregarious president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians. In between rungs on his Curial career, Pignedoli served as a World War II chaplain (submarines) and auxiliary bishop of Milan (under Archbishop Montini). Young people love him and thousands write him letters about their problems. In the last election he ran close to Siri and Luciani on the first ballot. Also-ran status is a liability he shares with Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, 65, prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, and Paolo Cardinal Bertoli, 70, a career Curialist, both of whom ran further back last time. Pignedoli has the best chance...
...past, housing collapsed when interest rates rose, because mortgage lenders ran out of cash. Depositors would take their money out of savings and loan associations, which are limited by law as to how much interest they can pay, and put it into Treasury bills and other higher-yielding paper. But lately mortgage lenders have developed new financial gimmicks that enable them to compete for funds, even when money gets tight. One innovation: high-interest certificates of deposit (CDs), with a yield that is one-quarter of a point above the Treasury bill rate at the time of purchase. In July...
...tailback in high school. In that part of the country, football's really wild. We had a great team, and huge guys, and we ran all over everybody. My senior year I carried the ball something like 308 times...
...Pleasant surprise?" he says, laughing incredulously. "I said, 'Didn't you know I ran the 100 in 9.6, didn't you know I weigh 190 pounds? That's odd, a pleasant surprise...
Coach George Ford is also confused, as yesterday's alignment attests. Two attackers did not seem to be the solution to the scoring drought no matter how much the wing halfs ran. Ford has also tried a dozen combinations on the front line trying to create the elusive spark. "Something is missing," he said after the Columbia game. "But I don't know what...