Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous military President, General David Padilla, who stepped down in August, vainly appealed to soldiers to stage a countercoup that would return the presidency to Guevara, but by week's end active resistance to the new regime halted...
Seeking to keep that notion alive, the Foreign Ministers of the other Andean countries issued a statement expressing their "confidence" that Bolivia would soon return to "democratic and harmonious national comity." The only way to achieve that may be Coup...
...widespread ambivalence about the return of electroconvulsive treatment was evident at a psychiatric conference this fall in Britain. While demonstrators picketed outside the meeting carrying placards reading ECT WAS APPROVED IN BUCHENWALD and CONTROL PSYCHIATRY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A MIND TO, doctors inside reported that fully half of ECT patients questioned in a survey feared the treatment less than going to the dentist...
...city's co-op purchases are all-cash deals. Elsewhere, bankers and brokers are devising ways to ease the credit pinch on buyers. Some California brokers arrange deals whereby the seller acts as his own bank; he agrees to turn over his condo to a buyer in return for a so-called trust deed, which requires monthly payments directly from the buyer...
Prices gyrate two or three points between lunch and cocktails. When interest rates rise bond prices fall-and often sharply. That is because securities sold earlier at lower rates are less desirable than new bonds that will pay a higher return. In just a few hours last month, the price of 30-year Government bond fell two points-from 91% of face value to 89%-and bond dealers lost $20,000 on a mind lot $1 million purchase of the issue. In this environment, corporations are forced to raise interest rates still higher to attract new customers. Since the beginning...