Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The turn was applied by the House Ways & Means Committee, which voted to kill a bill giving the President authority to raise the interest-rate ceiling on long-term Government bonds above the present 4½. This will force the Government to do more of its financing through short-term...
The Treasury must refinance $34 billion in the next twelve months and come to the market each week with $1,000,000,000 or more in bill offerings. Last week the interest rate that it has to pay on short-term (gi-day) bills rose to 3.4%, the highest since...
So far, Evans' aggressiveness has paid off. Crane's net income in the first half rose more than 60%, to $2,333,000. Just how much farther Evans will go toward reducing the size of Crane is a matter of wide speculation. His rift with Landa over how...
The most alluring is Red Knees, who has a "massive brain" and knows "the kings of England and all kinds of scam like that." She charges. Dobie for help with his homework, gets 7? a sentence for a parse job, 10? apiece for the provinces of Canada, 80? to tell...
Dogs Do Not. There are those who would argue that Author Sitwell starts with a crippling handicap when he admits: "One of my deficiencies is that I am not at all religious; and if the truth must be known, Christian neither by instinct nor inclination." At times along Journey'...