Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Federal Reserve System, it can also appeal to "the lender of last resort"-the system's discount window. The price is high. Besides paying interest, currently 51%, the bank must submit to scrutiny that is even closer than usual. As a result, only 1% of credit extended to the banks has been passing through the Fed's discount window in recent years...
...really had no enforcement powers. At week's end the City was treated to the spectacle of an emasculated board that reversed itself and decided that the companies in question "were within the letter and spirit of the code." American had won Gallaher's. But the end result seemed likely to be the establishment of a new and separate agency to preside over all mergers involving British companies and foreign investors...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorched. That is to say, husbands who spend the torrid days of summer in air-conditioned offices reached by air-conditioned cars, buses or trains find it difficult to say no when overheated wives demand air conditioning at home. As a result, cooling units have become the smartest-selling home appliances after refrigerators and washing machines...
...Clemmens, manager of General Electric's room-air-conditioner division: "Our children are raised in an air-conditioned culture. They attend air-conditioned schools, ride air-conditioned buses. You can't really expect them to live in a home that isn't air-conditioned." The result is that 18 million American homes, or 31% of the total, have some sort of air conditioning today v. only 9% a decade...
...westerns go, this one doesn't. It saddles up a big-name cast, but the giddyap! gets mired in a lot of giddy yapping. The intent was to lighten carnage with comedy; the result is heavy-handed Grand Old Horse Opry...