Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board of late has been trying gradually to reduce the rate of growth in money supply in order to "undernourish" inflation, as Burns once put it. It has not had much success; the basic money supply during 1977 grew by 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...
...each in its own style, and the teams, in turn, reflect in a measure the characters of their cities. Denver, wild and woolly jumping-off point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...
...large measure of credit for Morton's success in Denver can be traced to his days as a Dallas Cowboy, which ended only after Lieut, (j.g.) Roger Staubach, U.S.N. (ret.) took away his command in the huddle. It was in Dallas under Coach Tom Landry that Morton polished his skills in running a complex offense. Much of the sophisticated strategy that marks modern football was devised in Landry's fertile mind. For beneath the ubiquitous hat a size too small, behind the stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined...
Nonetheless, enough quantifiable information reached the computers to make Dallas the most consistently formidable club in football. Cowboy free-agent success stories are legendary. The current favorite: All-Pro Safety Cliff Harris from that renowned football hotbed Ouachita (Ark.) Baptist
...personality as a flat Texas landscape. Too computerized, too efficient, too heartless. Their presence on the football field was as chilling as a ranch-house visit from a cold-eyed Dallas banker holding an overdue mortgage. But just as the years tamed the ostentation of Dallas wealth, so has success slowly transformed the Cowboy image. The coldness has become cool professionalism, with a soupgon of eccentricity. The Cowboys have become the glamour team of pro football, home to the dazzling rookie with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett. In the old days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted...