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With less than form laps to go, Gompers made his move, took the lead and tried to stretch it out. But by the nine the gun cracked to signal the last lap. Sheehan was out in front, and with his powerful kick, no one had a player of catching...
...weeks ago Volcker flashed the sign that the White House wanted to see. The Federal Reserve cut the discount rate, which it levies on loans made to member banks, from 9% to 8.5%. It was an unmistakable signal for banks to lower the interest rates they charge customers. Even some of Volcker's harshest critics are now optimistic, if not entirely satisfied. Says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The Fed has reacted late and it has probably not gone far enough, but I think we can avoid a recession. The economy should rebound." Administration...
...apparently entitled to be addressed as "sir" until you are proved guilty and to be interrogated by a policeman wearing a scrupulously buttoned three-piece suit. It comes as a relief to Axel when a questioner gives him a sneak punch in the gut. He takes it as a signal that the traditional basics of police work have not been entirely forgotten among the boutiques and the Mercedes...
...Texas Democrat Wright Patman, then chairman of the House Banking Committee, antagonized financiers when he said, "I think we should have more bank failures. The record of the last several years of almost no failures is to me a danger signal that we have gone too far in the direction of bank safety." Big-city bankers bitterly opposed Patman's novel ideas for allowing more competition...
...audio pleasures are continually accosted by WHRB's signal. The WHRB broadcast comes in as background music to any radio station, record, or tape that we try to listen to on our stereos. The tunes from the top of Holyoke Center (where WHRB's) antenna is) even invade our television and toaster oven...