Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rates. Higher demand for loans and Federal Reserve Board efforts to prevent inflationary growth of the U.S. money supply are pushing up lending charges. The bank "prime" rate on business loans has jumped from 6¼% at the start of 1977 to 8% now; some Wall Streeters predict it will reach 8¾% or even 9% by year's end. The rise makes it more expensive for consumers and businesses to buy or build with borrowed cash. It could put an end to the housing boom by causing savers to pull their money out of savings banks and savings and loan associations?...
Although Egypt's President has lately become the Arab world's principal peace negotiator, no leader in the past decade has tried harder than Hussein to reach an agreement with Israel. The King looks back on his efforts as failures: "Ever since 1967, we have made it clear-before the 1973 war-that if Israel were willing to withdraw from territory occupied in 1967, we would be ready to negotiate or do anything to achieve that end. Far from getting a promise, we did not succeed even in getting a disengagement with Israel in the Jordan Valley...
...swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months. Investigators found that one escrow account in a Boston bank supposed to contain $3.6 million to safeguard clients' funds contained only $200. Massachusetts authorities believe the total siphoned off in their state alone could reach $12 million...
...from a Cuban coach, he won a bronze medal at the 1971 World Championships at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. He was just 15, but his lightning reflexes and devastating "kill" shots-150-m.p.h. caroms that whistle off two walls and the floor before bouncing beyond his opponents' reach -made him the first American winner in international competition. His rebote is among the best in the game, a single fluid motion as he turns to scoop the ball bouncing off the back wall into the lip of the cesta, twists and flings it toward the front wall. He turned...
...talent, Verna fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will speed her way to superstardom. She even imagines that Rodgers and Hammerstein will write her a musical after the war and promises her fellow troupers supporting roles. Though her pulpy fantasies of fame and fortune are ludicrously out of reach, her brave self-confidence wins over her battered G.I. audiences. The soldiers feel a kinship with the dauntless Verna because she, like them, is risking her life for the sake of an innocent American dream...