Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 7.4%, beyond Burns' target range of 4% to 6½%. That bothers conservatives, who want slower growth. But the board's efforts to throttle back have pushed up interest rates sharply. For example, the rate on "Fed funds"-overnight loans from one bank to another-rose two full percentage points during 1977, to 6.65%. Liberals like Presidential Economic Adviser Charles Schultze fear that any further rise will hurt the recovery by making business borrowing too expensive...
franchise, Louisiana voters in November 1966 amended the constitution and overwhelmingly approved a $35 million bond issue to finance the dome. The cost subsequently rose to $163 million...
What Elizabeth settled after marriage was her career as a writer. She began writing short stories and, in remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
Woods, described as a "bulwark in the line" by a 1919 Crimson sportswriter, helped spur the football team to a 10-3 victory over Yale and a 7-6 win over the University of Oregon at the Rose Bowl New Year...
...Kidneys," he chortled, indicating his left temple. "I just did it to impress you, Rich. You see, I hear that exposure in your column gave a real boost to the sagging careers of my good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides...