Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Going into Sunday's final round of matches, Harvard trailed the Greenies narrowly. Although Harvard had only three players active Sunday, the title remained within reach. With Bougas alive in the singles, and Martha Roberts and Debbie Kalish (upset Saturday by Brown) vying for the consolation title they would eventually win, the Crimson still had a chance of grabbing the title...
...considerable danger is the threat of an outright credit crunch. That would occur if the Federal Reserve's tightening up of money, and the resulting rise in interest rates, reach such levels that borrowers found it impossible to get money on almost any terms. Such a squeeze occurred in the summer and fall of 1974, and almost immediately forced businesses to lay off upwards of 2 million workers because of the unavailability of even short term credit...
MORTGAGE LOANS: Interest rates averaged 11.15% in early September, and are heading higher. Many bankers predict that they may reach 14% by year's end. But in 24 states, including Illinois, New York and Texas, usury laws hold rates to 12% or less. Lenders there are likely either to cut back on making home-buying loans or attach tighter conditions to them. A typical instance: First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago has just shortened the repayment period on all mortgage loans to 25 years from 29 years, and now requires a minimum 25% down payment, vs. 20% formerly...
...December meeting in Brussels, the NATO members are scheduled to reach a decision on new weapons. To achieve rough parity with the growing number of SS-20 Soviet missiles targeted on European cities, NATO plans to deploy around the mid-1980s nuclear-tipped Pershing II and ground-launched Cruise missiles with a combined total of 572 warheads. Says Peter Corterier, spokesman for foreign affairs in the West German Social Democratic Party: "For the alliance to act credibly and to negotiate with the Soviets, it must make its decision now to accept nuclear weapons in the European theater. Otherwise, no arms...
...Kafka's The Castle and Lem's Memoir's Found in a Bathtub, Abe's new novel presents a protagonist thrust into an absurd, alien environment with a mission he must accomplish. In the former, a gentlemen K., claiming to be a land surveyor, sets out to reach the castle, while Lem's memoir-writer must wander through endless corridors to escape from a vast underground military complex. In Secret Rendezvous, the labyrinth is an enormous hospital, and the unnamed protagonist's obsession is to locate his wife, who has been mysteriously carted from their home by an ambulance that...