Word: tiptop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rating that overseas borrowers still need to raise U.S. money easily, the issuer proudly lets the results be published; if not, it usually simply decides not to sell the bonds, and no one ever learns that it was investigated, let alone that its credit standing was considered less than tiptop. Many American investment institutions are banned by law from buying foreign bonds that are rated less than triple-A, and though Brazil and Mexico have sold bonds in the U.S. with no rating at all, they have had to pay higher interest...
...with premier and ministers in charge of administration, maintenance, security, information, leisure, domestic life and social and medical problems. They were also publishing a daily newspaper and had even devised a special postmark for their mail. Apparently they were working even harder than usual to keep the France in tiptop shape. But they rejected a call by Premier Jacques Chirac to end the strike and resume talks. "We've heard all that before," said a spokesman for the crew. "We'll stay where we are until the government turns serious...
Yale-Colgate--When I was little I had an electric football game. After two rugged seasons, the foil under the players got bent so that they either moved very slowly, or in a circle, or just fell over. But my 2 yellow back stayed in tiptop shape and before the end of every game he would outrun everyone for a long touchdown. Yale and Colgate will move slowly and fall over in a dull battle today, but Jauron will break one long run in the fourth quarter to end a slow, close game. Yale 17, Colgate...