Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murdered virtually without fear of punishment. Lately, the bandits have been pushing the Sardinians a bit harder than usual. They began robbing middle-class citizens as well as the wealthier islanders. They grew more vicious, asking outrageous ransoms and even killing some of their kidnap victims. As a result, the Sardinians have finally rebelled against the tyranny; they are not only breaking their long silence but are taking up arms against the bandits...
...jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed it of the sentimental encrustations that Strauss never intended; as a result it was sharper, livelier, nobler...
...first result of the 51% discount rate, highest since the 6% rate posted by the New York Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing...
West Germany's problems were largely the result of a spending spree on the part of both consumers and government that sent the cost of living soaring. By clamping down on capital expenditures and tightening money, the government was able to nip inflation-and by the end of 1967, the economy was stabilized. During the first two months of this year, production was up about 5.5%. In March, crude-steel output hit an alltime high of 3.6 million tons. Domestic auto sales have been slower to recover, but carmakers predict an increase of 12% this year. Even the staid...
...result is that much of the sound on TV has just barely advanced beyond the age of the wireless. Given the tinny speakers in TV sets, producers feel that it is futile to sink money into new studio sound equipment. TV manufacturers argue that a set with a quality sound system would double the size as well as the price of a unit. Besides they say, most people are so indifferent to sound that they are not even aware that many sets have tone-control knobs Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests...