Word: rated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard police car patrolling the Business School reports a water hazard caused by a broken underground pipe. A puddle several feet deep has formed and the officer estimates the water is flowing out at a rate of about 25 gallons a minute...
...Jones industrial average up 56.82 points to 2439.70, its highest level since the October 1987 crash. But when the sharp increases that took place during the first four months of the year are taken into account, wholesale prices are still zipping upward at a rapid 9% annual rate. The conflicting trend lines -- down in retail sales, up in producer prices -- heightened concerns about a return of 1970s-style "stagflation" -- spiraling inflation combined with sluggish economic growth...
Those concerns leave the Federal Reserve Board in a quandary. Under Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Fed has engineered the slowdown by nudging up interest rates for more than a year in hopes of keeping inflation in check. Since May 1988, the prime rate that banks charge major corporate customers has climbed from 8.5% to 11.5% and fixed rates on home mortgages have risen from about 10% to 11.5%. Yet while the tight money has clobbered housing and other big-ticket items, inflation poses a serious threat. If Greenspan vigorously pushes interest rates higher to combat that threat, he risks...
...expected to be a full citizen of the University, you simply cannot work at a rate that is any more rapid than your senior colleagues," says Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord, an English Department professor whose recent tenure denial helped prompt the meeting with Bok. "They don't produce at a rate that would qualify them for tenure at Harvard...
...best possible health care -- as good as the treatment a millionaire gets." But another survey, by the Public Agenda Foundation, found that only one person in ten would accept a $125 tax increase to support a national insurance program for catastrophic illness. As medical costs rise at an annual rate of more than 15%, public health facilities try to cope with the needs of the 37 million Americans -- about 15% of the population -- who have no medical insurance at all. "We want to be all things to all people, but the money's just not there," says Dr. Tom Miller...