Word: rating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, we did pass them and stroked hard on to the power stretch, a portion of the river marked by bridges, upon which sit spectators who think you are a boat of Championship Eight caliber. I felt confident and pulled harder until our cox gave us the encouraging reminder that we had made it half way. This is about as encouraging as a grade from the Government Department: "Excellent paper...
...scientists studied people adopted at birth in an effort to distinguish between environmental and genetic influences. The rate of alcoholism among adopted Danish males with an alcoholic biological parent was almost four times that of a control group...
...cases where a boy was brought up in a family with one alcoholic parent while his brother was raised in a non-alcoholic foster home, the alcoholism rate was the same...
Financial reports show that students and parents have shouldered an increasingly large burden in providing overall University income over the past decade. Admissions officials fear the growth in tuition may be driving away middle-income applicants. And worried parents note that not only tuition itself but the rate at which it increases leaps each year. Easing that rate should be a top priority for Rosovsky as he decides what to do with his new money...
Paul A. Volcker, the cigar-chomping chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, sent America off on its latest economic wilderness adventure by announcing two weeks ago an anti-inflation program that did not just raise the discount rate--the Fed's interest rate on money it lends to member banks--but changed the very nature of how the Fed controls the money supply. Instead of trying to curtail the boom in credit by manipulating interest rates, Volcker announced, the Fed would henceforth apply direct controls to the money supply, raising member banks' reserve requirements and using other methods to keep...