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...offenses, the backcourt is expected to take up the scoring slack. "Jonas is going to have a shoot more," says Irion with additional scoring punch supplied by the injury-prone Rodgers, who sat out last year. Irion also should have a free rein to gun from downtown. "I have a lot of confidence in my shot. At first Satch was pretty reluctant to let me fire from outside but he's come around...
...their prime lending rate to corporations twice in little more than a month-from 7% to 6¾% and most recently to 6½%. One reason for the drop is a slightly easier credit stand by the Federal Reserve Board. Another cause of slumping rates, bankers assert, is slack loan demand from worried businessmen. Bankers argue that lowered rates will not boost borrowing, but will cut into bank profit margins...
...hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
After the half-time intermission, the Crimson was guilty briefly of letting the offensive pressure slack off. "But when Cornell started to take advantage of it, we came back," Dupuis said yesterday...
...there are now signs of a revival. As farms become larger and more efficient, agricultural experts expect the South's contribution toward meeting U.S. food demand to grow faster than the rest of the nation's. Cotton has declined in importance as a cash crop, but the slack has been taken up by other products: citrus fruit in Florida, sugar cane and rice in Louisiana. Southern soybean harvests are expected to account for 30% of the U.S. production in 1985, up from 27% in 1970. By 1985, Southern livestock farms will be producing nearly a third...