Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though Harvard outshot the Big Green by 800 per cent and rarely allowed the Dartmouth offense past the midfield line, the two teams found themselves locked in a 1-1 tie when the game horn sounded...
...Even though I am an old Nixon hater, I am appalled at Kissinger's snide and demeaning comments concerning Nixon's private side. While Nixon was President, Kissinger enjoyed all the benefits of power and prestige, as he still does by writing about his White House days; yet now that Nixon is in disgrace, Kissinger administers low blows...
...would like to inform Jay Cocks that even though I don't know what a boutique is and have ridden in a limousine only when serving as a young altar boy at a funeral, I can tell the difference between "something scraped off a bad piece of cheese" and the greatest rock-'n'-roll band in the world, the Rolling Stones...
...guide for regulating interest on certain bank deposits, would have leaped alarmingly. To keep money markets stable, the Fed's so-called Open Market Desk in New York was forced to begin making more and more money available to banks in order to satisfy demand for funds. Indeed, though the Fed's own inflation-cooling monetary growth target was 4.5%, which is just about right, the Open Market Desk's operations after March were actually expanding the money supply at an annual rate of close...
...Though higher interest rates are bound to crimp housing, pinch installment loans, and put a drag on sales of big-ticket items like cars, which are normally bought on credit and not with cash, most economists continue to agree that the economy is not about to drop into a free-fall plunge as it did after the oil-price shocks of 1973 and 1974. For the most part, the members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict a moderately deeper recession than envisioned in their earlier forecasts of September; but they foresee no economic tailspin, in part because the strength...