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While Nickel admitted Brown has "not had ahistory of continuing expansion," he said theschool's women's sports program went through ahuge growth spurt in the 1970s...
...Crimson used a 18-4 spurt in the first five minutes of the second half to cut the deficit to two points, 39-37. After that, neither team had more than a five point advantage...
This method didn't work too well either. Yet again, the visitors engineered another spurt, this time an 11-3 run. Harvard would never be close again...
...faster than economic conditions would demand. Such economists note that so far in 1994, long-term rates -- those that companies pay to finance / new plants or that apply to home mortgages -- have jumped as much as 2 percentage points in the U.S. and other industrial countries. That kind of spurt normally reflects lenders' fears of inflation, but inflation has been dormant all year, thanks at least partly to the Federal Reserve's vigilance. "What's going on with interest rates is more a scarcity of credit than a big rise in inflation expectations," maintains Roger Brinner, chief economist...
Appropriations Spurt...