Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout, Montana has been consistently fine, and personally considers the short year his best. Completing 63.8% of his passes, he threw for 32 ( touchdowns this season. By the complicated logarithms of the N.F.L.'s slide rule, he is the top-rated quarterback in all 65 years of the league. "With the running we have now (Wendell Tyler and Roger Craig)," Walsh says, "there's less pressure on Joe to do it all, and yet we expect even bigger plays from him down the field. We're not a ball-control passing team any more. Joe can get himself on balance...
Investors were largely responding to a slide in interest rates. The key federal funds rate, which banks charge one another for overnight loans, fell more than a percentage point Tuesday, to around 6.65%. The interest on Treasury bills also tumbled. Encouraged by such declines, Manufacturers Hanover and Bankers Trust cut their prime rate from 11¼% to 10¾%, the lowest level in 16 months...
...Economic Indicators is that G.N.P. growth will pick back up to 3.3% in 1985. A growing number of analysts, however, are more skeptical. Says Sam Nakagama, a Wall Street economic consultant: "We are already in the midst of a mini-recession, and the danger is that the economy will slide into a full-fledged recession...
...other oil companies last week disclosed major house-cleaning steps, partly the result of an 18-month slide in oil prices. Texaco announced plans to take a $765 million write-off on its fourth-quarter earnings, partly to reflect the decreased value of several underused refineries and oil tankers. California's Chevron, which merged with Gulf this year, said it may have to lay off some 10,000 workers and sell Gulfs Pittsburgh headquarters...
According to Chertkov, however, such hassles are commonplace for disabled students and are often not resolved as fruitfully. "I don't know how many people slide through the cracks," she says. "There are a lot of people who never complain. A lot of people get screwed...