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Morgan, in his first season as a backstop, improved his defense quickly while wielding a torrid bat. He hit .358 with a remarkable 34 RBI's in just 109 at-bats...
...flood of new issues followed the torrid pace set in 1991, when companies sold a record $132 billion of corporate bonds as the Federal Reserve Board pushed down interest rates. While most such deals represented refinancings that will reduce corporate payments to investors, the latest sales could also be a harbinger of corporate investment in new plant and equipment later this year. "If interest rates remain relatively low, we should see a rebound in capital spending once the economic outlook brightens," says John Lonski, senior economist for Moody's Investors Service...
Southern California studios set a torrid pace for car design...
...poems, novels, movies and songs. It also inspired University of North Carolina researchers to design a five-year, $18 million survey of 24,000 youngsters in grades 7 through 11 to determine teen attitudes toward sex in the '90s. The study, ranging from the tame (hand holding) to the torrid (sodomy and oral sex), won funding from the National Institutes of Health in May. But last week Secretary of Health Louis Sullivan abruptly canceled the study because he feared it would contradict his stand against casual...
...offensive hero of the game was Captain Marcel Durand, who had a home run and four RBI's as he continues his torrid hitting...