Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broke. Valente's machine brings technology to the old, time-consuming Italian process. Whole coffee beans are electrically ground into a fine powder. Just enough for one cup is dropped into the filter of the machine where it is packed tight under pressure. Then boiling water is pumped downward through the grounds-and out flows the potent black brew...
...Crimson netmen needed their finest effort of the season to defeat the veteran Army squad. John Levin and Kent Parrot won tight three-set matches to provide the margin of victory. Rocky Jarvis and Terry Oxford added decisive singles wins...
...returned to orientation, find up-tight people and ask them whether there is free speech on the Army Base. Insist they answer relevant questions. They are supposed...
Harvard suffered its only defeat at number four singles where junior Steve Devereux dropped a tight three-set match, 7-5, 0-6, 7-5. Devereux was unable to overcome his opponent's unusual strategy, which included crude digital gestures, bad calls, and obnoxious behavior...
...consequences of the tight supply and growing demand for capital are postponed projects, frustrated entrepreneurs, and an inflation in the price of money. Interest rates have been rising fairly steadily since World War II, are now the highest since the 1920s. In Brazil, interest is typically calculated by the month, and rates run as much as 2½%½ monthly for prime borrowers, 5% for medium-sized companies, and 7% for consumers who make installment purchases. In large parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, long-term capital is scarcely available at any price, and great chunks...