Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 9 seconds showing. Then Tom Beatrice snared the third St. John pass at the 25-yd. line and ran out of bounds at the Dartmouth 21. With five seconds in the game. Harvard coach Joe Restic elected to try a field goal--a38-yd. attempt into the swirling wind in the closed end of the stadium...
...close to 16%, making stock ownership on borrowed money extremely expensive, but it had a sharp psychological effect on the market. That was quickly compounded when Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher, told a New Orleans press conference that the money markets were in such turmoil that banks might soon wind up having to recalculate their prime rates, "from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon...
...somewhat higher if the Federal Reserve continued its now discarded practice of trying to manage the money supply by juggling interest rates Reason: in a slowdown, demand for money necessarily eases off at least somewhat and interest rates subside. But to keep those rates stable, the Fed would wind up slowing and slowing the growth of money until suddenly it would be creating nowhere near enough new money...
...accusing the Israelis of genocide, they have stamped practices with labels that simply don't apply. As events take their logical course, and speeches wind their way up to new pitches of frenzy, terms like racism, imperialism, and above all, genocide will cease to have meaning, the crime each describes will seem commonplace, just the latest in a long line of such atrocities...
Neither were the football players. When the football players caught wind of the band's charades, "they got very upset," Hoover says. Several of them exchanged harsh words with the band members. John J. Pendergast '82, a football player, suspects the band is jealous. "I think they may feel the cheerleaders are encroaching on their territory," Pendergast speculates...